A Quote by John Ashbery
Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.
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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.
The pleasure of reading a story and wondering what will come next for the hero is a pleasure that has lasted for centuries and, I think, will always be with us.
I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them, even incredibly good books. But I don't feel it's my duty to finish them. I read the last few pages and find out what happens at the end.
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.
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.
The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.
I like making things. I enjoy putting words and images on a blank space. There should be joy in the writing itself because parts of it are so challenging and lonesome. I take great pleasure in reading, researching, and interviewing. I enjoy forming my sentences and revising them to make them clean.
The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.
The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
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 greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.
When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we can still take pleasure in reading it to a companion. To him it has all the graces of novelty.
What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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