The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make,… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
