A Quote by Steve Lopez

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

Steve Lopez

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Steve Lopez
American - Journalist
Born: 1953

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

Ray Bradbury

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

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

Abraham Lincoln

Our forefathers never envisioned that a handful of staff write a bill and you rush it through a committee without reading it and you rush it to the floor without reading it, and you pass it just because you're a Democrat and Democrats told you to do that.

Mike Ross

The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.

Leslie Jamison

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

C. S. Lewis

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the YMCA sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman.

H. L. Mencken

Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things it keeps one from writing. It is especially valuable in this respect in serious writing, and no one without a sense of humor should ever write seriously. For without knowing what is funny, one is constantly in danger of being funny without knowing it.

Robert Benchley

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

I loved being a SEAL. I loved working with those kind of guys and a sense of mission, and Blackwater was started to continue that sense of mission.

Erik Prince

Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

Teresa Mummert

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.

C. S. Lewis

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.

Arundhati Roy

I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

Gloria Naylor

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

Susan Sontag

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