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
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JOHN RUSKIN If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.
AMAN JASSAL If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
JOHN RUSKIN Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – wo...
C.S. LEWIS if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.
PAULO COELHO I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth read...
ASHWIN SANGHI Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we b...
NATALIE S. BOBER Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth readi...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we...
CYRIL CONNOLLY No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we...
CYRIL CONNOLLY A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
DAVID MITCHELL It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
C.S. LEWIS If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of educat...
ALEISTER CROWLEY Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpiece...
JOHN MORLEY Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writin...
BILL CALLAHAN The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom...
H. L. MENCKEN If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth readi...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’r...
MINDY KALING Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my reader...
R. A. SALVATORE I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
UMBERTO ECO You learn more about life from watching 'Big Brother' than from reading a book.
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H. L. MENCKEN The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are wo...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.
THOMAS CARLYLE The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and p...
PAUL THEROUX I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out a...
L.M. MONTGOMERY If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.
AMAN JASSAL Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done s...
JOHN MORLEY Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done s...
MOLIERE If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book...
BEVERLY CLEARY Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth re...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth readin...
G. M. TREVELYAN Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth rea...
G. M. TREVELYAN Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth read...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth readin...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN Just the child seeing a parent with a book or a newspaper, or reading a recipe or a book on how to r...
GINGER WILLIFORD No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.
ORSON SCOTT CARD This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po...
TERRY PRATCHETT I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anac...
GARTH STEIN When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes par...
DAVID FERRY The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of th...
ANATOLE BROYARD I believe that the phrase ‘obligatory reading’ is a contradiction in terms; reading should not b...
JORGE LUIS BORGES What makes a good book? Simply put, a good book is one that you enjoy reading.
CARMELA DUTRA If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
OSCAR WILDE I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.
CARLA H. KRUEGER A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "H...
ITALO CALVINO Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters -- because girls can read as well as boys -- r...
MERVYN GRIFFITH-JONES I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was signific...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The most comfortable place for a tired mind is in the lap of a book.
AMAN JASSAL Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.
TERRY PRATCHETT You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over...
DALE ARCHER ~Reading a book is like looking through a window!
ZETTA HUPF I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
HEINRICH HEINE When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book a...
DODIE SMITH It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one’s adult enjoyment of what are called...
C.S. LEWIS One good quote is worth a book
RUDYARD KIPLING One good quote is worth a book
JOSEPH ROUX Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book...
YANN MARTEL A good book ought to bring out lots of different responses from those that read it - none of them pr...
SHARON DRAPER My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgo...
ALBERTO MANGUEL We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've...
ALI SMITH If you enjoy reading something, read it.
S. E. HINTON For my 2015 Book Reading Challenge resolution, the 1 (one) book I want to read is titled: "Write, yo...
ROLF AND RANGER Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends.
AMAN JASSAL I struggle with reading a bit. I'm slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in ...
THOMAS BRODIE-SANGSTER I couldn't believe they were going to let us read something like that. At first, I didn't want to re...
CANDICE WILLIAMS To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not...
MARIA MITCHELL If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, tho...
URSULA K. LE GUIN So many people mistakenly take the Bible as a mere reading book! They read it every now and then! We...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.
ERASMUS Happiness is not always reading the same page in the same book. Sometimes it is just wanting to hold...
FAYE HALL When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their...
KRISTY SWANSON For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a music...
SONU NIGAM I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.
MANOJ ARORA Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
MARILYN VOS SAVANT Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your...
ANGELA CARTER The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story,...
CARLTON CUSE Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What the...
LEVAR BURTON When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're re...
NINA JACOBSON What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading
ALICE JAMES You're never alone when you're reading a book.
SUSAN WIGGS A lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading.
KATHRYN HARRISON So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; m...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.
AMAN JASSAL I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to ...
AMY TAN In my defense, I love the book in a postmodern kind of way where I've always sensed that it contains...
CAROLINE KEPNES Something significant, magical, and
inspiring happens with each word you read in the pages of ...
MARTHA SWEENEY ..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying part...
NOAM CHOMSKY We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expan...
JUDITH BUTLER The way a book is read which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to ...
NORMAN COUSINS The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replie...
ANDRé MAUROIS When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is...
MICHAEL KORYTA Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth rea...
G. M. TREVELYAN I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I'...
JOHN GOULD Read everything! Don't just read things that are in your comfort zone or things that you think y...
CASSANDRA CLARE Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.
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SUSAN SONTAG The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations...
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SUSAN SONTAG Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ...
SUSAN SONTAG The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste...
SUSAN SONTAG Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
SUSAN SONTAG Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in ou...
SUSAN SONTAG What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG Perversity is the muse of modern literature
SUSAN SONTAG What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual ...
SUSAN SONTAG It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, preciou...
SUSAN SONTAG My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything,'
SUSAN SONTAG I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them
SUSAN SONTAG The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of...
SUSAN SONTAG Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAG A great private collection is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites. ...
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