Home » Quote » Henry Miller » „A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.“ „A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.“ — Henry Miller Tags:BooksLying Related quotes „A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.“ — Henry Miller „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 „People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.“ — Henry Rollins „There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, "now what?“ — Jean Paul Sartre „I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf… Let’s leave our books free to travel, then, to be touched by other hands, and enjoyed by other eyes.“ — Paulo Coelho „We can no longer expect the one big book, the single achievement, to be an author's claim to posterity's regard. We shall be more inclined to assess the stature of a novelist by his ability to create what the French call an oeuvre, to present fragments of an individual vision in book after book, to build, if not a War and Peace or Ulysses, at least a shelf.“ — Anthony Burgess
