Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

Most books are three-thirds rubbish.

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books.

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched. If I see them reading X Latin American Writer Who Sucks, I'm not psyched. But in terms of news, I do think that's important.

When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year.

I am a bookworm.

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

The City That Reads

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.

I'm a bookworm.

I'm just encouraging students to read. It's something you can do daily. It's something you can do whether you're sitting at home reading a newspaper or ordering something online. It's endless.

If you're going to clutter up the world with more novels, you should do a little more than entertain people.

My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.

I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

People read every thing nowadays, except books.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.

I think if people read more, that is a better world.

To write you had to read so I backed into reading.