Education… has produced a
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan
Worth Reading
Most of the literary
Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you’ve nothing better to do. Edward Abbey
To read without reflecting
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke
No fiction is worth
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
I always want to
I always want to read Gore Vidal’s nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it’s worth reading. Frederick Busch
How truly does this
How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts–I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious–insolent & whimsical I must appear!–one moment flighty and half mad,–the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole … Read more
History is worth reading
History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
If you really want
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
Writing is a solitary
Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it’s the other part that’s usually producing the stuff worth reading. Craig Johnson
Rosa Luxemburg was –
Rosa Luxemburg was – still is for me – a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and social democracy are all worth reading. I wouldn’t consider anyone truly politically literate if they hadn’t given her work at least some study. Christopher Hitchens