Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.
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.
In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don’t know how to read them.
Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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...
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
People who always arrive early aren't worth waiting for.
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Even beyond the Middle East, the role of the independent women remains as warped as a Lewis Caroll novel. We may control $12 trillion of the world's $184 trillion in annual consumer spending (I read it in Newsweek), and yet our self-worth apparently ...
If I had caused any trouble worth mentioning, you would have read about it in 'Star' magazine, which is probably why I didn't cause any trouble worth mentioning.
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 essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.
Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.
Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.
I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly
I haven't read much, but it still seems impossible to me that anyone, no matter how much he read, could've read every book in the world. There must be so many of them, and I don't mean every single book, good and bad, just the good ones. There must b...
Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.
Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Or, you say that this business of marking books is going to slow up your reading. It probably will. That's one of the reasons for doing it. Most of us have been taken in by the notion that speed of reading is a measure of our intelligence. There is n...
