Reading Pleasure Quotes

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.

Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

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

And you love to read, you love to escape, right?

The printed page was like wine to me.

I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my bedtime, hooked on the writing. Is anything better than waking up after a late-night read and diving right back into the plot before you even get out of bed to brush your teeth?

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

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.

I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

I enjoy the act of research. I'm researching as a means to an end, but I literally just enjoy reading about how people lived in the past and understanding it better.

Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

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

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.

I've always loved books.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

I would like my novels to be read the way I read the novels I love.

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.