Stanley Kubrick
(1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor
“Never read any book that is not a year old.”
In Praise of Books
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Never read any book that is not a year old." by Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Ralph Waldo Emerson 727
American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882Related quotes
“I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.”
Source: Trout Fishing in America
John Philip Kemble
(1757–1823) British actor-manager
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 40.
“You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”
Dr. Seuss
(1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Oscar Wilde
(1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”
Isaac Asimov
(1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
Edmund Wilson
(1895–1972) American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters
The Triple Thinkers (1938) [Oxford University Press, 1948], Preface, p. ix
George Bernard Shaw
(1856–1950) Irish playwright
As quoted in "Literary Censorship in England" in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5 (November 1913), p. 378; this has sometimes appeared on the internet in paraphrased form as "Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads"
1910s
Context: Any public committee man who tries to pack the moral cards in the interest of his own notions is guilty of corruption and impertinence. The business of a public library is not to supply the public with the books the committee thinks good for the public, but to supply the public with the books the public wants. … Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. But as the ratepayer is mostly a coward and a fool in these difficult matters, and the committee is quite sure that it can succeed where the Roman Catholic Church has made its index expurgatorius the laughing-stock of the world, censorship will rage until it reduces itself to absurdity; and even then the best books will be in danger still.