Nonreading

I get off cheap because I have no “nonreading friends”. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'd started writing more, or course, but work and nonreading hobbies nibbled away at the reading time until I came to a point where I wasn't reading novels at all. ❋ Jimvanpelt (2007)

It is all the more difficult to reflect on unread books and the discussions they engender because the concept of nonreading is itself unclear, and so it is often hard to know whether we're lying or not when we say that we've read a book. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is unsurprising that so few texts extol the virtues of nonreading. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He speaks of "aggressive" nonreading, which has been my relation to Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking," her best - selling book about the death of her husband, a work I would as lief cut off both my thumbs than read. ❋ Joseph Epstein (2007)

There are millions of people in this country today who will never even know who their great-grandparents were, who will have no pictures, who will have no nonreading parents who make sure they have books. ❋ ITY National Archives (1993)

How do parents engage their nonreading children in the world of books? ❋ Unknown (2011)

Do think again in making way for what sounds like one more jejune set of unfunny panels pitched at the nonexistent (or at least nonreading) ❋ T. Hodler (2009)

I loved this article, but I don’t think that these books are perfect for “nonreading” types. ❋ Unknown (2009)

3. It is universally agreed that the nonreading of poetry is (a) contemporary and (b) progressive. ❋ Unknown (2005)

That’s gross, but seriously I wonder if nonreading teenagers don’t deserve to have some simple “their type” books written. ❋ Dr. Beatrice Sparks (2010)

It must be remembered that, literacy being what it was in those days (a condition it seems we are rapidly approaching once again, which, in itself, ought to be a warning to those who yearn for "the good old days"), the nonreading public was more likely to be exposed to any semblance of literature by attending performances at the theater, probably in much the same way in which our functional illiterates establish their relationships with the face of the TV tube. ❋ Unknown (1976)