Unreadable Quotes

20 quotes by 17 authors

The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important sense, unreadable. — Seamus Deane
The best thing about conceptual poetry is that it doesnâ€™t need to be read. You donâ€™t have to read it. As a matter of fact,… — Kenneth Goldsmith
There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the… — Jane Hirshfield
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret,… — Maurice Blanchot
The aim of the Constitutional treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable...The Constitution aimed to be clear,… — Karel De Gucht
It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from stories… — Aleksandar Hemon
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort… — Arthur Koestler
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. — Stendhal
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. — Oscar Wilde
It is always the unreadable that occurs. — Oscar Wilde
Curiosity killed the cat,â€ Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? â€œPeople always forget the… — Tamora Pierce
To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadableâ€”like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not… — Mark Twain
I'd thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I'd thought I could help you fall asleep at night." He opened his mouth… — Kristin Cashore
The unread is always better than the unreadable. — Oscar Wilde
a happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than… — Ted Kooser
Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient… — Oscar Wilde
Magnus's eyes went back to Alec. They were gold-green, as unreadable as the eyes of the cat he held on his lap. "Not my favorite… — Cassandra Clare
Taking a sip of the hot chocolate he'd made her, she met his gaze, those eerie eyes of endless black impenetrable, unreadable. "Max?" "Yes?" "Will… — Nalini Singh
And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman… — Neil Gaiman
It takes a look from you. Just one. My heart starts pounding fast and slow. A rhythm of love. You smile and I slow my… — Jade

Who Wrote These Unreadable Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 20 Unreadable Quotes as follows: