Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said:… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading. — Steve Lopez Copy Share Image
People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Ultimately the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing,… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed… — William Gerhardie Copy Share Image
If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Rosa Luxemburg was - still is for me - a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
