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Never read a book that is not a year old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What think you of books?" said he, smiling. "Books - oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings. — Jane Austen

The biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them. — Jackie Collins

Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him. — Mike Tyson

She had a great respect for books herself, and she wished that she had read more. One could never read enough. Never. — Alexander McCall Smith

Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true painters. — Francesco Albani

I'm more of a one-time reader. There are so many good books waiting to be read, I'll never go back and read one twice. — Deb Baker

There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps. — Edna O'Brien

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books. — P.B. Kerr

I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out. — Leslie Charteris

I houseclean my books every spring and throw out those I'm never going to read again like I throw out clothes I'm never going to wear again. — Helene Hanff

She was a bibliophile - she would be perfectly happy never talking to another human being again as long as she had books to read. — Brenda L. Harper

The books we don't read are full of warnings; we will either never read them or they will arrive too late. — Javier Marias

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read. — Paul Theroux

The books you have read and the knowledge and inspiration you have gained can never be taken away from you. — Paula Gruben

Everything looked charming to him now. Never again would he read these books, write on this little white wooden table! — Victor Hugo

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look. — Mary Karr

I love a book which never ends in my head, even though- a thousand times, it has been read! — Mansi Tejpal

Some books are so special that you never forget where you were the first time you read them. — Natalie Lloyd

That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own. — Janette Rallison

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. — George R R Martin

Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway. — Larry McMurtry

You can never read too many books, any kind. — Nora Roberts

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read. — Francoise Sagan

I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all. — Karen Joy Fowler

I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV anymore. — Daphne Guinness

When you learn to read you will be born again ... and you will never be quite so alone again. — Rumer Godden

But they never again passed up the opportunity to read a good book, together. — Renata Bowers

Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation. — Edward M. Lerner

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand. Peacetime — Ben Horowitz

I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this. — E. Nesbit

I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.' — Darren Shan

I'm glad to know I will never live long enough to run out of books to read. — Douglas Self

She'd never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to other people. — Alan Bennett

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight. — Tom Stoppard

Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way? — Django Wexler

I'm a great reader that never has time to read. — Eudora Welty

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen. — Alberto Manguel

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels. — Kid Rock

I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for one until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything. — Neil Gaiman

Maybe some people were destined to be alone. But, I reminded myself, you're never alone if you read. — Rebecca Raisin

Finished' is not an adjective that describes a book that has been read to the point you think you cannot read it anymore. Books never run out. — Ella

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too. — Nick Hornby

With "The Thousand and One Nights", I learned and never forgot that we should read only those books that force us to reread them. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them. — Jackie Collins

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read. — Patricia A. McKillip

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate. — Alberto Manguel

I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself. — Edward Abbey

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. — Samuel Johnson

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No. — David Mitchell

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world. — Leonard Cohen

There's just never enough time to read all the books you want. — Emily May

Most people know my music but will never read my books. — Chico Buarque

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. — C.S. Lewis

Unless paid, I never read books by or about businessmen or politicians, nor should anyone else. — Joe Queenan

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed. — Jennifer Tilly

Pete said she didn't like to read, and he could never get tight with a girl who didn't like books. — Stephen King

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. — George Bernard Shaw

If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing. — Jim Rohn

I would rather have ten books I'd read again and again than a hundred books I'll never read. — Jo Grix

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. — John Witherspoon

Regret piles up around us like books we have never read. — Jack Ryan

I never read comic books as a kid. — Al Jourgensen

I never read articles about my books. — Ben Schott

A serious bibliophile never lends his books. In fact he does not even read his books, for fear of wearing them out. — Gerard De Nerval

If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you ... I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can. — Donalyn Miller

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today. — Holbrook Jackson