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History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books. — Natalie S. Bober

If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself. — Bohumil Hrabal

A book isn't worth reading if it's not worth discussing. — Rick Holland

Live a life worth reading about. Then write it. — Chris Campanioni

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased. — Samuel Richardson

Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard. — Teresa Mummert

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. — Charles Dudley Warner

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading. — Isaac Asimov

I think any reading is good reading, even if it's commercial fiction. A good story well told is worth the time — Lynn Cahoon

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

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading. — Horace

There are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality. — Felix J. Palma

Devote yourself to reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz — William L.K.

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

A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. — C.S. Lewis

There is always a hope for the living.
Life is worth living, no matter what situation you may have encounter.
No situations is permanent. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble. — Zelda Fitzgerald

Most people worth knowing enjoy reading. — Brandon Mull

If you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading — Abraham Lincoln

No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it. — Paul Leicester Ford

Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about. — Ellen DeGeneres

To live in books is cowardly
but people are not worth investigation. — Lily Koppel

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

I'm the only one who can accurately tell my story. It's up to me to make it worth reading. — Keisha Elle

A human being is like a novel: until the last page you don't know how it will end. Or it wouldn't be worth reading. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

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. — Garth Stein

If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about. — Benjamin Franklin

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

A wise man once said that if a book was not worth reading twice it was not worth reading once. — Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson

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

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice. — John Lothrop Motley

In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics. — Maria Semple

A book worth reading is worth owning. — John Ruskin

People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a mighty quotation is worth more than a thousand pictures. — Jakub Marian

Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. — George Macaulay Trevelyan

Maybe the one dangerous thing about reading a library's worth of books was the way your imagination got pumped up like a bodybuilder on steroids. — Dean Koontz

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers. — Harold Holzer

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. — Carson McCullers

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

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice. — Aman Jassal

If a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading. — Paulo Coelho

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. — John Wesley

A lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading. — Kathryn Harrison

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. — H.L. Mencken

Only one book is worth reading: the heart. — Ajahn Chah

Read something worth writing about or write something worth reading about — Anonymous

It is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading ... — Jane Austen

Among the Conscious, a man is only worth his latest reading. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. — Thomas Swick

If a book isn't worth reading over and over again, it isn't worth reading at all. — Oscar Wilde

Books can move people, inspire people, change people's lives, and even impact whole societies. They are certainly worth spending an afternoon with. — Jan Surasky

Write about fear. Write about pain. Write about heartache and resentment. Nothing worth reading comes from writing what can be said out loud. — Alexandra Cruz

In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don't know how to read them. — Martin Buber

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

Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. — David Mitchell

The heart is the only book worth reading. — Ajahn Chah

If there were nothing else, reading would
obviously
be worth living for. — Nuala O'Faolain

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. — John Ruskin

Is impossible to specify what [consciousness] is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it. — Stuart Sutherland

When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading. — Billy Collins

Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering. — Desiderius Erasmus

This even doesn't worth and one dollar just for reading and viewing it! — Deyth Banger

Start reading. Your two cents will be worth much more. — Harsh Bhatnagar

Don't leave your life a blank page. Make each word count and leave behind something worth reading. — Mae East

I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading. — Richard Flanagan

Great speed in reading is a dubious achievement; it is of value only if what you have to read is not worth reading. — Mortimer J. Adler

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

Growing up my dad would say, 'if your life were a book, would it be one worth reading? — B.L. Berry

If the warmth of her Language could affect the body it might
be worth reading in this weather. — Jane Austen

Let the enemy fall by their swords. Words not worth reading die their own death. But our Words will be Told! — K.A. Gunn

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading. — Bernard Malamud

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. — Susan Sontag

The stories I read gives strength to my spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista. — Lynn Coady

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading. — Ray Bradbury

If a book doesn't inspire you to read more, it was not worth read. — Aman Jassal

Books worth reading are worth re-reading. — Holbrook Jackson

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. — Ashwin Sanghi

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading. — Rikki Ducornet

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading. — Yevgeny Zamyatin