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It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people. — Haruki Murakami

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure. — Nora Roberts

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure. — Ambeth R. Ocampo

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure. — Woodrow Wilson

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

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

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

I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure — Oscar Wilde

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird. — Ken Jennings

I love to read for my pleasure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone. — Wendell Berry

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

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old. — Stanley Kubrick

Reading for pleasure isn't separate from learning to read. — Pam Allyn

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

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. — Gene Wolfe

The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it! — Naomi Shihab Nye

Such a reader does not read for easy pleasure or to expiate social guilt, but to enlarge a solitary existence. — Harold Bloom

Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot. — Gabrielle Dubois

The latter's boast that he had never read a book for pleasure in his life did not predispose me in his favour. — Anthony Powell

The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it. — Mason Cooley

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure. — Virginia Henley

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction. — Alaa Al Aswany

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do. — Piers Anthony

Writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial. — Virginia Woolf

I read for pleasure and to acquire knowledge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every book read with pleasure up to its end deserves a five star rating. — Niovi Lyri

I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read. — Billy Collins

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,

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure — Jane Brody

I read poems for the pleasure of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of poetry is the way in." ~from an interview in Narrative magazine — Donald Hall

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. — Samuel Johnson

My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough? — Francoise Sagan

I inhaled books like other people breathe oxygen. I didn't just read for knowledge or pleasure, I read to live. — Yeonmi Park

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried. — Hillary Clinton

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

For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein. — Mikhail Tal

Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company. — Michael Dirda

It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it. — Joan Didion

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

What do you read for pleasure?
Kama Sutra. — Jonathan Dunne

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure. — Clarence Darrow

Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit. — Henry David Thoreau

What we read with pleasure we read again with pleasure. — Horace

It is just the literature that we read for 'amusement' or 'purely for pleasure' that may have the greatest, least suspected, earliest influence on us. — T. S. Eliot

The pleasure of reading is indescribable. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. — Mark Twain

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

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.
(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.) — Horace

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. — Nora Roberts

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. — Clarence Darrow

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