More from Edgar Allan Poe
- Letter to George W. Eveleth (January 4, 1848).
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
“Eleonora” (1841).- To M——— (1829), reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
More about reading
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain1835–1910Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
