Pleasure Reading Quotes

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.

In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.

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

Books are a languid pleasure.

I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.

It has been proven time and time again in countless studies that students who actively participate in arts education are twice as likely to read for pleasure, have strengthened problem-solving and critical thinking skills, are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, four times more likely to participate in a math and science fair.

Year followed struggling year for me, and all that time I read - I suppose few have ever read so. I began, as most young people do, by reading the books I enjoyed. But I found that narrowed my pleasure.

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

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

As a reader, sometimes, I just want to not think. You know, I want to read something that is purely enjoyable: that is, like, escapist.

If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.

In terms of sheer pleasure, Tom Stoppard was very big for me because he is so funny and so smart, and it felt delicious reading him.

I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

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

We profit little by books we do not enjoy.

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor.

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.