A Quote by Raymond Chandler
All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.
We tend to think of crime fiction as reading designed for entertainment - not education. It delivers an almost pure kind of readerly pleasure: the mystery solved, justice delivered, roughly or otherwise.
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.
I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing; that's fantastic, but it's only entertainment.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.
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.
The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm 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 reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?
In fact, entertainment has taken the place of celebration in the present world. But entertainment is quite different from celebration; entertainment and celebration are never the same. In celebration you are a participant; in entertainment you are only a spectator. In entertainment you watch others playing for you. So while celebration is active, entertainment is passive. In celebration you dance, while in entertainment you watch someone dancing, for which you pay him.
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