Pleasure Of Reading Quotes

• 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.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Reading, Imagination, Soul

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.36, Penguin

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

  Confucius

  Reading, Ignorance, Self

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• A great book should leave you with many experiences.

  William Styron

  Book, Should, Inspirational Reading

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Lord Chesterfield

  Reading, Cows, Pleasure

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

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Book, Reading, Library

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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

  James Bryce

  Life Lesson, Book, Reading

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• 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.

  Paul Theroux

  Book, Reading, People

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.385, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

  Reading, Agreement, Minorities

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

  Lord Byron

  Reading, Knowledge, Needs

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

  Harold Bloom

  Reading, Solitude, Pleasure

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Reading, People, Want

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• 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.

  Azar Nafisi

  Reading, Reality, Discovery

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

  Toni Morrison

  Inspirational, Happiness, Attitude

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Oscar Wilde (1950). “Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

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• 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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Reading, Writing, Pleasure

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.120, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

  Vernon Lee

  Reading, Pleasure, Greatest Pleasures

  Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”

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

  Anthony Trollope

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  Forbes, (p. 42), April 1948.

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Giving Up, Real, Reading

  On "Mortal Love" at HarperCollins, 2004.

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• 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.

  Steve Leveen

  Reading, Opportunity, Land

  Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

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• 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.

  E. M. Forster

  Reading, People, Understanding

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.98, RosettaBooks

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

  Katherine Mansfield

  Book, Reading, Literacy

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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.

  Paul Theroux

  Book, Reading, Pages

  Paul Theroux (2011). “To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux”, p.131, Ivy Books

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• 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.

  Jon Scieszka

  Book, Reading, Adventure

  "National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Must Go!" by Jon Scieszka, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Reading, Writing, Pleasure

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

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Stupid

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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