The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more. — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
It sounds like a brag but I've got a separate room in my flat just for unread books; I don't let my… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
“He wondered what percentage of the world's art was actually kept in bank vaults and the like. Like unread books and unplayed… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to… — Lil B Copy Share Image
I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
“The library sucked up sound like a vacuum. All of those thousands and thousands of unread books sucking up secrets for the… — Michael Sears Copy Share Image
She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Flora had also learned the degraded art of 'tasting' unread books, and now, whenever her skimming eye lit on a phrase about… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
“Zaid's finest moment, however, comes in his second paragraph, when he says that "the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“How many books do you have here?” Corliss asked. “Two million, one hundred thousand, and eleven,” the librarian said proudly, but Corliss… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don't know how many ten-day spans I… — Ken Kalfus Copy Share Image
"It’s not as if I don’t have anything to read; there’s a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed,… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
“A library of mostly unread books is far more inspiring than a library of books already read. There’s nothing more exciting than… — Gabe Habash Copy Share Image
A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“If you missed your chance to read a particular book, even if it was recommended to you or is one you have… — Marie Kondō Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of people in the world, those who re-read and those who don’t. No, don’t be silly, there are… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“Every year, more than 120,000 new books are published in Britain, creating millions of volumes that will never be opened, let alone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For the last several days I've had the sudden and general urge to buy a new book. I've stopped off at a… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread… — Zilpha Keatley Snyder Copy Share Image
Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
