I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.
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, heartbreak - it's all there.
I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth two.
If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they a...
The first discipline is the realization that there a discipline—-that all art begins and ends with discipline, that any art is first and foremost a craft. We have gone far enough on the road to self-indulgence now to know that. The man who announce...
Freedom is not worth it without him.
If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it.
A pound's worth of tears will not settle a penny's worth of debt.
The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.
You will not invest in yourself if you think you are not worth it
It's not worth it! It's not workin'! You wanted it to be picture perfect!
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
Carrie felt this as a personal reproof. She read "Dora Thorne," or had a great deal in the past. It seemed only fair to her, but she supposed that people thought it very fine. Now this clear- eyed, fine-headed youth, who looked something like a stude...
Let the enemy fall by their swords. Words not worth reading die their own death. But our Words will be Told!
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.
I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.
The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
Will my future faith be dominated by past demons? Will my unlimited possibilities give way to my limited territory?" Read more in A Daughter's Worth Novel
