A dream which has not been interpreted is like a letter unread.
Unplowed fields make hollow bellies; unread books make hollow minds.
It is always the unreadable that occurs.
Writing an unwritten thing, read the unreadable.
Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.
Your love to me was like an unread book.
A dream uninterpreted is like a letter unread.
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
Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread.
Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.
Book should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
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!'
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, because he is separated from it.
To put an end to the spirit of inquiry that has characterized the West it is not necessary to burn the books. All we have to do is to leave them unread for a few generations.
Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.
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.
