Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread. - Oscar Wilde
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
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. - Brandon Mull
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library. - John Waters
Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread. - B.R. Myers
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
Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread. - Mark W. Boyer