Unread Quotes

47 quotes by 42 authors

Braveheart is pure Australian shiteWilliam Wallace was a spy, a thief, a blackmailer - a c**t basically. And people are swallowing it. It's part of… — Billy Connolly
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library." — Austin Kleon
For some Church members the Book of Mormon remains unread. Others use it occasionally as if it were merely a handy book of quotations. Still… — Neal A. Maxwell
Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of a new book… — Debra Ginsberg
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of… — George Steiner
Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where… — Holmes Rolston III
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more. — Gabriel Zaid
Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. They buy… — Gabriel Zaid
Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book… — Sherman Alexie
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has… — W. Somerset Maugham
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having… — John Dingell
Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How could she not… — Sherman Alexie
Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person,… — Anthony Burgess
I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my… — Linda Grant
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books… — A. Edward Newton
It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it… — Seth Godin
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took… — Richard Peck

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