Joanna Scott Quotes

I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

I love to read things that I'm sure won't make a movie.

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

I don't reread my books.

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

If I couldn't use food or love to define contentment, I would use reading.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company.

I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking information. But a serious novel or work of history or volume of poetry is an experience one should savor, take time over.

When someone says to me, 'I love your book - I read it in a day,' I want to tell them to go back and read it again.

I read the novel 'Miracle at St. Anna' when it was first released, and I loved it.

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

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.

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

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant (or indeed, at all relevant) but which, carefully attended to, can supply a kind of "sense" of what is going on. This "sense" is not to be obtained by reading between the lines (for there is nothing there, in those white spaces) but by reading the lines themselves looking at them and so arriving at a feeling not of satisfaction exactly, that is too much to expect, but of having read them, of having "completed" them.

Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?

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.