Unread Quotes

“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.”

“The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.”

“The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever written is written to be read and if some go unread that's only chance, failure, they're like grubs that die without changing.”

“Its emptiness is more than the lack of living, breathing beings. It is the unread pages of the many books that reside on the shelves throughout the room I should hot have thought one could tell when books have gone unread, but after the company of Birchwood's well-loved library it is as if I can hear these books whispering, their pages grasping and reaching for an audience.”

“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”

“Manage me, I'm a mess Turn a page, I'm a book Half unread”

“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read”

“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”

“'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable and for me that always sort of spoils a book.”