There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.

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I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will...
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The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- B...
ITALO CALVINO But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave ...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB Organizing the books was a fun afternoon. We decided to put the thick hardback books, mostly intro. ...
JOSHUA ISARD I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I...
IRWIN SHAW The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we...
CAROLYN WELLS I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know ...
ALBERTO MANGUEL I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and r...
MATT GROENING There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely...
LYNN COADY We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books w...
CORY DOCTOROW I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. E...
MAX IRONS Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We who read regularly and who encourage our families to do likewise, may find it hard to accept that...
GLENN MURRAY For most of us, fanfiction is a non-issue. Even for midlist writers. We will never be popular enough...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;
The books that we would like to read...
CAROLYN WELLS The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
FRANCOISE SAGAN The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
F. SAGAN We tend to read each other's books in sizeable chunks as they are written. I don't know that...
JONATHAN KELLERMAN We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be ...
SUE TOWNSEND There are moments of heartache and heartbreak, that we wonder how we did not drop dead in our pain. ...
MISHI MCCOY In the end, life is about collecting experiences and looking for the lesson and blessing in each one...
SUZY KASSEM Each one of us has some kind of vocation. We are all called by God to share in His life and in His K...
THOMAS MERTON I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three s...
LAWRENCE WRIGHT If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL no one knows why we are put on this earth i dont think any of them are true i dont even know why we ...
DALLY SALAD We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to ...
MICHAEL BENNETT I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time...
JAMES PATTERSON I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I gues...
MEGHAN TRAINOR We never tried to be a warehouse for books. We always paid very close attention to practically every...
JACK GOLDMAN I think we have better products. We have to get them out there to our customers when we say we will ...
ED ZANDER You never know with him. He?s a great coach - very smart, very good at game planning - and we know t...
JAKE PLUMMER All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our dispos...
NICK HORNBY There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willi...
PHILIP PULLMAN I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I...
NANCY MITFORD Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so t...
R. L. STINE Before there were books, we read each other.
LISA CRON In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo...
ITALO CALVINO No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book ...
NANCY WERLIN Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy ...
HA-JOON CHANG Because of our belief that the facts will ultimately support a position of coverage for Ethel Adams,...
JEFF BEYER We do read the books in this group. We usually even talk about them. Unless...
ANNE HOLTON Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews boo...
GEORGE W. S. TROW People wonder if it’s possible to meet a person, or to just read their name out loud for the first...
C. JOYBELL C. One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life i...
JACQUELINE KELLY Some nonreligious people are disgruntled by the word "faith," feeling that it has no connection to t...
KENTETSU TAKAMORI Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read ...
ANNE HATHAWAY There are so many good books waiting to be read, I’ll never go back and read one twice.
DEB BAKER The terrorists haven't won, and we should tell them in plain English, 'No, there will never ...
RENEE ELLMERS She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you o...
KAMAND KOJOURI I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to ...
AMY TAN We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place,...
GEORGE W. BUSH Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you w...
JODI PICOULT Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room."
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN I declare
That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we ...
SAPPHO In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo...
ITALO CALVINO Soon, books will read you while you are reading them.
YUVAL NOAH HARARI Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jum...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They rea...
SHERMAN ALEXIE we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI They really fall in love. She has a big impact on his life and he will later become the Bond that we...
EVA GREEN I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocquevil...
KURT VONNEGUT The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS... We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagi...
ALBERTO MANGUEL I’m more of a one-time reader. There are so many good books waiting to be read, I’ll never go ba...
DEB BAKER With us, people caught on to something on our third album, and that will never be repeated. Basicall...
VICTORIA LEGRAND Through books we can time travel, play make-believe and even create our own intangible art using the...
THE MODERN BOWERBIRD: TALES OF A BOOKSHELF One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world...
ATWOOD H. TOWNSEND We will read books together inside the blanket and stay warm. And keep writing poetry in our respect...
AVIJEET DAS Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety o...
NICHOLAS SPARKS One thing about liberals: It doesn't even occur to them that there is another side to an argumen...
MONICA CROWLEY Our difference are beautiful yet sometimes connection requires us to focus on our similarities, like...
SCOTT STABILE There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, rea...
AARON CARTER We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I would love to be in 'The Hunger Games.' I'm one of the few people who haven't read...
CASSI THOMSON Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sp...
EDITH WIDDER I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves...
ARI BERK To say that I'm going to veto something that I haven't read is just - or sign something that...
DOUG DUCEY Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place ...
HILARY DUFF If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers w...
JUDY BLUME I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept g...
R. A. SALVATORE There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at...
LIN YUTANG I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious reade...
DEBORAH HARKNESS I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply to...
MEG ROSOFF Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. G...
HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE She herself was a victim of that lust for books which rages in the breast like a demon, and which ca...
ROBERTSON DAVIES [I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. ...
JUDY BLUME Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to en...
JEAN TOOMER We should stop trying to find differences between one another, and focus on our similarities.
BEN OAK I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If ...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors...
SUSAN ORLEAN There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is ...
AARON COPLAND Oh, oh, oh I can't do that and that... Okay I will do that,... I gonna read this book, I will check ...
DEYTH BANGER I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separa...
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UMBERTO ECO But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Chris...
UMBERTO ECO L'essere umano è davvero una creatura straordinaria. Ha scoperto il fuoco, edificato città, scritt...
UMBERTO ECO To survive, you must tell stories.
UMBERTO ECO Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn...
UMBERTO ECO Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tact...
UMBERTO ECO Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty part...
UMBERTO ECO The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,
the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improve...
UMBERTO ECO The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more ev...
UMBERTO ECO The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.
UMBERTO ECO Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep...
UMBERTO ECO For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded ...
UMBERTO ECO The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are th...
UMBERTO ECO I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our ba...
UMBERTO ECO And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most lovi...
UMBERTO ECO All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are...
UMBERTO ECO But why do some people support [the heretics]?"
"Because it serves their purposes, which conce...
UMBERTO ECO In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a...
UMBERTO ECO There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I...
UMBERTO ECO But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of tho...
UMBERTO ECO لا أعرف شيئا ليس هناك شيئ أعلمه .و إنما بعض الأشياء يحسه...
UMBERTO ECO ...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy...
UMBERTO ECO We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could l...
UMBERTO ECO This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the...
UMBERTO ECO How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by
the often perverse wisdom of man!
UMBERTO ECO Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.
UMBERTO ECO A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a nove...
UMBERTO ECO كان رجال العهود الغابرة وسيمي الطلعة طويلي القامة و �...
UMBERTO ECO True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in...
UMBERTO ECO Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same ...
UMBERTO ECO We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
UMBERTO ECO Love is wiser than wisdom.
UMBERTO ECO Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now...
UMBERTO ECO Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in ev...
UMBERTO ECO the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most ...
UMBERTO ECO American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100
degrees centigrade in pla...
UMBERTO ECO The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of d...
UMBERTO ECO Priešas turi būti atpažįstamas ir baisus, jis turi būti tavo namuose arba prie durų slenksčio...
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There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.

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There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.

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