Reading For Pleasure Quotes:

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

- Norman Spinrad

topic: Children, Reading, Science, Reading For Pleasure

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

- B. F. Skinner

source: "The Man and His Ideas". Book by Richard Isadore Evans (p. 73), 1968.

topic: Inspiring, Education, Book, Joy Of Reading, Libraries And Reading

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

- Mary Wortley Montagu

source: Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

topic: Book, Reading, Library, Joy Of Reading, Diversion

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

- Confucius

topic: Reading, Ignorance, Self, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Reading

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Book, Reading, Writing, Inspirational Reading, Inspiring Reading

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Stupid, Reading For Pleasure, Reading Novels

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

- Groucho Marx

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Smile, Learning To Read, Inspirational Reading

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

- Harold Bloom

topic: Reading, Solitude, Pleasure, I Can Read, Reading For Pleasure

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

- Katherine Mansfield

source: Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Book, Reading, Literacy, Reading For Pleasure, Pleasure Of Reading

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

- Anthony Trollope

source: Forbes, (p. 42), April 1948.

topic: Inspirational, Book, Reading, Reading For Pleasure, Pleasure Of Reading

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

- Vernon Lee

source: Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”

topic: Reading, Pleasure, Pleasure Of Reading, Reading For Pleasure

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

- William Styron

source: William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Life, Book, Reading, Inspirational Reading, Inspiring Book

Reading for pleasure isn’t separate from learning to read.

- Pam Allyn

topic: Reading, Pleasure, Learning To Read, Reading For Pleasure

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

topic: Children, Reading, Passion, Reading For Pleasure

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

- Raymond Chandler

topic: Reading, Entertainment, Pleasure, Reading For Pleasure

I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor.

- Sloane Crosley

topic: Reading, Airplane, Airports, Reading For Pleasure

I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.

- Raymond Chandler

source: Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.17, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

topic: Art, Reading, Men, Reading For Pleasure