Worth reading Quotes · Page 3

The heart is the only book worth reading.

— Ajahn Chah

In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are always being made…

— Isak Dinesen

A book worth reading is worth buying.

— John Ruskin

If [Bill Shawn] liked the piece, then he would run it. But he wanted the magazine to be something that was more…

— Nat Hentoff

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

— C. S. Lewis

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth…

— William Ernest Henley

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

— Bernard Malamud

I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made…

— Sharon Creech

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

— John Podhoretz

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

— John Ruskin

I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.

— Richard Flanagan

...one of hallmarks of a creative person is the ability to tolerate ambiguity, dissonance, inconsistency, things out of place. But one of…

— Ralph Caplan

Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved.…

— Stuart Sutherland

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part…

— Craig Johnson

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

— Isaac Asimov

In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the…

— George Bernard Shaw

How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and…

— Fanny Burney

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

— Ajahn Chah

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch…

— Katherine Paterson

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

— Frederick Busch

[Students for a Democratic Society] was on many campuses and it was a powerful organization. It was founded by Tom Hayden, who…

— Bill Ayers

It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think…

— C. S. Lewis

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work…

— Leszek Kolakowski

Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more from the…

— Norman Geisler