The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Ursula K. LeGuin
What Haven't You Read?
This isn’t one of those “1001 books you must read before you can consider yourself well-read” posts. This is more of a clutter post: what do you have sitting around waiting to be read?
Books, magazines, papers, bills? How big is your stack? Where do you keep it? And if you dare confess it, how long have they been waiting?
Man's Second-Best Friend
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
Groucho Marx