Worth Reading Quotes

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

Writing, Write, Worth

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

Writing, Dead, Write

A book worth reading is worth buying.
John Ruskin

Book, Worth, Reading

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 in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Moliere

Work, Famous, Book

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan

Education, Able, Worth

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

Worth, Reading, Whether

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
Leslie Fiedler

Talk, Reason, Worth

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Antonin Artaud

Poetry, Others, Dead

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 and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.
Leslie Jamison

Love, Different, Find

I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.
John Gould

Everything, Worth, Read

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