A Quote by Joan Rivers

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

Joan Rivers

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Joan Rivers
American - Comedian
June 8, 1933 - September 4, 2014

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

Kate DiCamillo

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

Kate DiCamillo

I always say that keeping abreast of science should never be seen as a chore. It should be something you do naturally. I don't sit there reading 'New Scientist,' putting post-it notes next to ideas.

Alastair Reynolds

I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.

Ruskin Bond

Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.

James Patterson

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

John Ashbery

When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of pleasure. Some pleasure is difficult. It should be for the reader as well as the writer. But it has to be pleasure.

Martin Amis

I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.

Neil Gaiman

Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.

Kate DiCamillo

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

Beverly Cleary

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.