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Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the limitations… — William J. Brennan
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to… — Antonin Artaud
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true… — William Ernest Henley
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. — Antonin Artaud
Ultimately the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of… — John Scalzi
I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire,… — Jay Baruchel
I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that… — Sharon Creech
The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors… — Leslie Jamison
Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. — Benjamin Franklin
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing… — Moliere
A book worth reading is worth buying. — John Ruskin
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. — G. M. Trevelyan
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the… — C.S. Lewis
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something… — Katherine Paterson
It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. — C.S. Lewis
The heart is the only book worth reading. — Ajahn Chah
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
No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading. — Paulo Coelho
Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation,… — Arnold Bennett
if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading — Abraham Lincoln
Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read… — Christopher Hitchens
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

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