You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
A great book should leave you with many experiences.
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 pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.
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.
The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading
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.
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.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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