Top 1200 Reading For Pleasure Quotes & Sayings

When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as this body, so it moves to pleasure. And pleasure really is a non-existent thing. When we're experiencing pleasure, we're trying to hold onto it as it leaves, so it really isn't pleasure. Pleasure is pain because we're grasping.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

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.

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I sit up dutifully, mindful of ergonomics and suchlike concepts. When reading for pleasure, I take advantage of the 'recline' in recliner.

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.

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.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in public the better. Reading for distraction is like taking medicine. We do it, but it is nothing to be proud of. But reading for experience is transforming.

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

Reading for pleasure isn’t separate from learning to read.

The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

At the heart of our desires is eternal happiness without the slightest hint of misery. You could say that we are pleasure seekers; however, seeking pleasure from the objects of our five senses produces fleeting moments of pleasure whereas, pleasure of one's self, a soul, is eternal and ever-increasing pleasure.

BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.

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

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.

I'm a Christian, but I'm not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

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.

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is for them to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

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.

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

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

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.

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists. But try to pitch it to a group of non-readers, and they quickly become suspicious.

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.

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

A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to act, to create - all of these are inherent in a love of reading.

I haven't read for pleasure in 35 years. I mean, I get a lot of pleasure from what I read... For me, it's gotten so that it doesn't seem as though I've read a book unless I've written about it. It really seems the completion of the reading process.

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

In junior high school, I learned that I could be good at school. I remember liking the freedom to choose classes and the pleasure of learning and doing well. My perseverance and love of reading had somehow allowed me to overcome many disadvantages of dyslexia, and I read a lot of books for pleasure.

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.

While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.

There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.

[On reading:] It is almost the only inexhaustible pleasure.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

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

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.

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.

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.

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

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.

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.

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

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.

I'm really interested in the pleasure we get from stories and the pleasure we get from movies, and certainly the pleasure we get from virtual experiences. My complaint is against empathy as a moral guide. But as a source of pleasure, it can't be beat.

Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.

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