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Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. — Ian McEwan

I love pleasure of reading, writing and dancing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books — Brandon Sanderson

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. — Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

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

Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words. — Audrey Niffenegger

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. — Paul Nurse

When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries. — David McCullough

The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives. — Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

I am of the old-fashioned conviction that reading is a pleasure to be carefully guarded at all times — Jenny Colgan

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it. — Karl Kraus

In my pursuit of historical ecology, I find the pleasure of reading history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life. — E. M. Forster

Reading is for pleasure; it's not another form of social competition. Leave those literary Joneses to it. — Heather Reyes

There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music. — James Weldon Johnson

I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text. — Pat Mora

I love the pleasure of reading poetry. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My pleasure in reading is not necessarily the witnessing of something new, but of something familiar which I haven't seen described. — Ian McEwan

The thought of my chief inspector reading The Waste Land filled me with pleasure. Suddenly he pushed a snapshot toward me. — W. Somerset Maugham

[P]art of the pleasure of engaging with a writer is unraveling some allusions and admitting defeat by others. — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

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. — Ernest Hemingway,

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. — W. Somerset Maugham

The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them. — Robert Littell

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct. — Michael A. Stackpole

How could I fall asleep, when I love the pleasure of reading and writing at night? — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure. — P.D. James

what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. — Katherine Mansfield

Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading. — Stephen D. Krashen

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading. — Vernon Lee

Next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too. — Arthur Ransome

This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it. — J.K. Rowling

The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas - for my body does not have the same ideas as I do. — Roland Barthes

The pleasure of reading is indescribable. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading — Vladimir Nabokov

I read for pleasure
In search of fictional worlds
To enrich my truths — A.A. Patawaran

The joy of reading is sacred pleasure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one. — William Hazlitt

BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book. — Rob Brezsny