Enjoyment of Reading Quotes

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

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

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

All reading should be pleasurable! I don't like people who keep reeling out the 'books are so important' line. First and foremost, reading is about entertainment, the same as movies, video games and music.

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.

I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

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 didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like books very much. But the book that she lent me I really enjoyed.

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.

I remember, for the first time, sitting down and consuming books in a matter of hours. This was such a new experience for me because reading, up until that point, had been such a struggle and source of stress. I think I just needed to find the right kind of stories with which I could identify.

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.