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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, and they want the person, not the book. -- Anthony Burgess
Your love to me was like an unread book. -- Countee Cullen
An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index. -- Octavio Paz
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, a story. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
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 read its books. -- John Dingell
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 bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!' -- Linda Grant
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 usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue. -- Seth Godin
Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside. -- Marie Rutkoski
I don't even know how people read new fiction anymore because there's so much old fiction that exists that seems great that's unread. It's overwhelming to me. But, I mean, I do read. But there probably haven't been many people less literate than me that have been in 'The Paris Review.' -- Harmony Korine
I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
An unread book does nobody any good -- Brandon Mull
The unread is always better than the unreadable. -- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is more impotent than an unread library. -- John Waters
An unread book is just a block of paper. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman. -- John Dryden
He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation. -- John Adams
Redeem the time. Redeem the unread vision of a higher dream... -- T. S. Eliot
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more. -- Gabriel Zaid
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. -- Brandon Mull
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree? -- Christopher Paolini
A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God. -- Willis R. Whitney
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
Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality. -- Sarah Silverman
I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. -- Nick Hornby
... I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread... -- J.R. Ward
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 they live. -- Holmes Rolston III
Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to read books, and I'm just an unread book. Open me! -- Lil B
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 nothing else in the world to do. -- W. Somerset Maugham
She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat. -- Maud Hart Lovelace
I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so oddly by history that I wanted to hear his side of things. -- Marilynne Robinson
The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics. -- Lee Gutkind

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