Worth Reading Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Reading, Thinking, Sight

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• A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said: "No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of 50 and beyond.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Book, Reading

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth reading.

  David Starkey

  Reading, People, Feelings

  Source: andreaauten.wordpress.com

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• Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.

  Mark Doty

  Reading, Broken, Paradise

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• The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Book, Reading

  "A little book in C major".

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• You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

  John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

  Book, Reading

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• if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Reading, Self

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• 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 to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro. If something is worth hearing or listening to, it's very probably worth reading. So, this above all: Find your own voice.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Reading, Grandmother, Boys

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

  Abraham Lincoln

  Reading, Writing, Names

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• 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, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.

  Arnold Bennett

  Reading, People, Theatre

  Arnold Bennett (1974). “Arnold Bennett: the Evening standard years: "Books and persons" 1926-1931”, Shoe String Pr Inc

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• 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 habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Reading, People, Fiction

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• 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

  Book, Princess, Reading

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• 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

  Book, Reading, Done

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• Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy to say so, he and his 'Lamentations' are really not worth reading.

  Annie Besant

  Reading, May, Melancholy

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.425, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Reading, Science, Chemistry

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.434

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• Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

  Stephen King

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Reading, Thinking, Years

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816”, p.514, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Edward Conard provides a provocative interpretation of the causes of the global financial crisis and the policies needed to return to rapid growth. Whether you agree or not, this analysis is well worth reading.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Reading, Growth, Analysis

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• The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

  Stephen Leacock

  Reading, Writing, Islands

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town”, p.7, The Floating Press

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• People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, Reading, Men

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• The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the YMCA sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Book, Reading

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

  Edward Abbey

  Reading, Ifs

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

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• A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.

  Leszek Kolakowski

  Reading, Mind, Philosopher

  "Metaphysical Horror". Book by Leszek Kołakowski, 1988.

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• Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

  Steve Lopez

  Reading, Writing, Missions

  Steve Lopez (2010). “The Soloist”, p.66, Random House

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• Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.

  Stuart Sutherland

  Reading, Doe, Impossible

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