But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.
All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.
We profit little by books we do not enjoy.
I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.
As you read, allow your reading to cluster around your interests.
I sometimes get tired because I can seldom read a book for pleasure. I'm like the play reviewer who happens to go to a play on an off day and can't help but view it critically.
I feel like the books that I'm reading at any given time will really help me with my work, because it's just more characters, and you see new people while you're reading.
Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.
I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
