Pleasure Of Reading Quotes

This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets.

In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore.

I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

A great book should leave you with many experiences.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press, knows that on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.