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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 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
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
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
I love to read for my pleasure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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[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
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
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
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
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
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
The pleasure of reading is indescribable.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
— Raymond Chandler
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 pleasureIn 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
what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah