Never Read Quotes

187 quotes by 160 authors

• He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction… — Terry Pratchett
• And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide… — Nick Hornby
• This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it. — William Goldman
• If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris… — Sarah Vowell
• Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you? No. Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But… — S E Hinton
• Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that… — Jane Austen
• You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people… — Ted Dekker
• P.S. Nothing personal, but I think this journal assignment is a waste of time. I know I have to do something to make up for… — Kate Klise
• One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order… — Arthur Schopenhauer
• You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet,… — John Waters
• I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner… — Johnny Cash
• Never read a book that is not a year old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or… — Patrick Rothfuss
• Marya Morevna! Don't you know anything? Girls must be very, very careful to care only for ribbons and magazines and wedding rings. They must sweep… — Catherynne M. Valente
• It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most… — Helene Hanff
• The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly… — Billy Collins
• Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book. — John Hughes
• Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words… — Marguerite Duras
• And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read… — P.B. Kerr
• The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know — the greater… — Thomas Wolfe

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 Henry David Thoreau
• 3 Never Read Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Nick Hornby
• 2 Never Read Quotes by James Lee Burke
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Neil Gaiman
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Jackie Collins
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Sydney Smith
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Tom Baker
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Salman Rushdie
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Steve Fowler
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Tim Burton
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• 2 Never Read Quotes by Sylvia Plath
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Keith Haring
• 2 Never Read Quotes by Johnny Cash
• 1 Never Read Quote by Frank Oz
• 1 Never Read Quote by Arthur Levitt Jr
• 1 Never Read Quote by Marvin Hamlisch
• 1 Never Read Quote by Kristin Chenoweth
• 1 Never Read Quote by Ben Schott
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