Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Benjamin Franklin
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan
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. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. Antonin Artaud
A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading. Leszek Kołakowski
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading. Yevgeny Zamyatin