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There is pleasure from learning the simple truth, and there is a pleasure from learning that the truth is not simple. — Wayne C. Booth

How impervious to things spiritual, my heart!" cries a St. Bernard. "No savor in pious reading, no pleasure in meditation nor in prayer! — Alfonso Maria De Liguori

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me. — Zane Grey

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

I love food and I love ingredients and I love reading recipes. It's just a great pleasure. — Cara Buono

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

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

A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance. — Phyllis McGinley

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

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

I don't think reading is a pleasure I'll ever be able to abandon. — Jen Turano

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

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore. — Joan Rivers

It was nice meeting you three, and I'm sure under different circumstances it would have been a pleasure. — S.A. Tawks

Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure. — Chloe Thurlow

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

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

[On reading:] It is almost the only inexhaustible pleasure. — Annie French Hector

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

I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book! — Rachel Tucker

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

Reading is my pleasure; writing is my passion. — Joanne Weck

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure. — John Ashbery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions. — Roberto Bolano

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think. — Emily Dickinson

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

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

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

There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea. — William McFee

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

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

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. — Mary Wortley Montagu

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,

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

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

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind. — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

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

When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

Make reading a guilty pleasure... — Missy Jane

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

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty. — Alan Bennett

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths ... — Roberto Bolano

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard. — Susie Bright

The pleasure of reading is indescribable. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All reading for pleasure is entertainment. — Raymond Chandler

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

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

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

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing. — Francis Quarles

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. — Beverly Cleary

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

Reading will give you lasting pleasure. — First Lady Laura Bush

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

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