Words matter. These are the best Worth Reading Quotes from famous people such as G. M. Trevelyan, Ashwin Sanghi, Kevin Macdonald, Lynn Coady, Moliere, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.
The thing with newspapers is that they are a filter. We’re relying on the editors of that paper to be a filter and to tell you that this is worth reading about, this is quality, and this is quite reliable.
It’s doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista.
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.
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 serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Whether my columns are worth reading isn’t for me to say.
I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you’re writing, you’re writing nothing worth reading.
The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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 maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I’ve written mainly novels ever since.
In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics.
When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn’t worth reading.
A book worth reading is worth buying.
