Unread Books Quotes

• Un libro sin leer no hace ningún bien a nadie. Las historias suceden en la mente de un lector, no entre símbolos impresos en una página.

  Brandon Mull

  Book, Mind, Stories

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

  Gabriel Zaid

  Book, Desire, Losing

  Gabriel Zaid "Tantos libros: Leer y publicar en la era de la abundancia", Paul Dry Books

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• An unread book does nobody any good

  Brandon Mull

  Book, Doe

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• An unread book is just a block of paper.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Block, Book, Paper

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• 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

  Libro, Auto, Expresión

  Nick Hornby (2004). "The Polysyllabic Spree", McSweeneys Books

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• La historia no leída no es una historia; son pequeñas marcas negras sobre pulpa de madera. El lector, al leerlo, lo convierte en algo vivo: un cuento.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Libro, Lectura, Escritura

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). "Bailando en los confines del mundo: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places", p.198, Grove Press

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• 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 which Borges is the fabulist. He is no reader who has not heard, in his inward ear, the call of the hundreds of thousands, of the millions of volumes which stand in the stacks of the British Library asking to be read. For there is in each book a gamble against oblivion, a wager against silence, which can be won only when the book is opened again (but in contrast to man, the book can wait centuries for the hazard of resurrection.)

  George Steiner

  Book, Night, Men

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• Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Real, Book, Knowledge

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• Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Book, Reading, Valuable

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.777, Random House

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• Las especies salvajes vivas son como una biblioteca de libros aún sin leer. Destruirlas sin miramientos es como quemar la biblioteca sin haber leído sus libros.

  John Dingell

  Libro, Medio ambiente, Biblioteca

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• There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of all was the eager itch of anticipation as you went out the door with your arms loaded down with books.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Book, Doors, Dust

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2004). “The Velvet Room”, p.64, iUniverse

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• 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

  Book, Pages, Stewardship

  Holmes Rolston III (2012). “A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth”, p.131, Routledge

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• 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

  Book, People, Attention

  Fuente: www.cnn.com

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• 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

  Coffee, Book, Imagination

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• ‎"It’s not as if I don’t have anything to read; there’s a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to mention the shelves of books in the living room I’ve been meaning to reread. I find myself, maddeningly, hungry for the next one, as yet unknown. I no longer try to analyze this hunger; I capitulated long ago to the book lust that’s afflicted me most of my life.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Perfectly Good, Long Ago

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• I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This is not just true of the innumerable unread books in the socialist realist tradition, but also of novels that carry the burden of conservative ideologies, like Guerrillas, Naipaul's worst book, where the author's disgust for a certain kind of black activist and white liberal is overpowering.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Book, Thinking, White

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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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

  Book, Looks, Fiction

  Anthony Burgess (1990). "You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess", Heinemann Educational Books

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• Cada día tengo unas seis ideas para escribir en el blog. También me he dado cuenta de que escribir entradas el doble de largas no aumenta la comunicación, sino que la reduce. Y, por último, he descubierto que la gente se pone nerviosa si hay entradas sin leer en la cola.

  Seth Godin

  Comunicación, Escritura, Ideas

  "Entrevista: Seth Godin On How Often To Post To Your Blog". Entrevista con B.L. Ochman, 12 de enero de 2009.

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• It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don't know how many ten-day spans I have left. Eventually the unread books on my shelves will have to be abandoned, or they will join me on the pyre. The book I'm about to purchase may be among them. We all buy books we won't live to read.

  Ken Kalfus

  Book, Half, May

  "A Book Buyer's Lament" by Ken Kalfus, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2015.

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• Quienes aspiran a la condición de individuos cultos visitan las librerías con inquietud, abrumados por la inmensidad de todo lo que no han leído. Compran algo que les han dicho que es bueno, intentan leerlo sin éxito y, cuando han acumulado media docena de libros sin leer, se sienten tan mal que temen comprar más. En cambio, los verdaderamente cultos son capaces de poseer miles de libros sin leer sin perder la compostura ni las ganas de más.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Libro, Deseo, Mitad

  Gabriel Zaid "Tantos libros: Leer y publicar en la era de la abundancia", Paul Dry Books

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• A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.

  Roger Zelazny

  Song, Book, Fire

  Roger Zelazny (1989). “Frost and Fire”, William Morrow

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• 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

  Book, White, Shining

  "Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown". Book by Maud Hart Lovelace, 1943.

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