Lesenswert / Worth Reading Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Lesenswert / Worth Reading:

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan

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

Leslie Fiedler

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.

William Ernest Henley

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

G. M. Trevelyan

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

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

A book worth reading is worth buying.

John Ruskin

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

Antonin Artaud

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.

Moliere

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.

John Scalzi