Never Read Quotes

187 quotes by 160 authors

• I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes. — Christopher Nolan
• I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of… — James Patterson
• I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to… — J. B. Priestley
• I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit. — Harold Ramis
• One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew… — Salman Rushdie
• If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things. — Henry David Thoreau
• One half who graduate from college never read another book. — G. M. Trevelyan
• Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. — Gore Vidal
• I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so. — Oscar Wilde
• And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed… — Henry David Thoreau
• Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate. — Alberto Manguel
• Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I am in a… — Diane Setterfield
• I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.… — Sylvia Plath
• He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never… — Alice Hoffman
• I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited… — Alberto Manguel
• What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all… — Sylvia Plath
• I'm sick of people who've never been to church telling me that church is full of hypocrites, and people who've never read the Bible telling… — Kristin Chenoweth
• I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I… — Nick Hornby
• Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things… — Lynne Truss
• Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they… — Jorge Luis Borges

Who Wrote These Never Read Quotes

160 authors contributed a total of 187 Never Read Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 6 Never Read Quotes by Unknown Author
• 3 Never Read Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 3 Never Read Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Tom Baker
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Tim Burton
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Sylvia Plath
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Sydney Smith
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Steve Fowler
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Salman Rushdie
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Nick Hornby
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Neil Gaiman
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Keith Haring
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Johnny Cash
• 2 Never Read Quotes by James Lee Burke
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Jackie Collins
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Alberto Manguel
• 1 Never Read Quote by Yoweri Museveni
• 1 Never Read Quote by Woodrow Wilson
• 1 Never Read Quote by Winston Churchill
• 1 Never Read Quote by William Peter Blatty
• 1 Never Read Quote by William Goldman
• 1 Never Read Quote by Will Durant
• 1 Never Read Quote by Wilford Woodruff
• 1 Never Read Quote by Vivienne Westwood
• 1 Never Read Quote by Unkown