Josh Radnor Quotes

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!

Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know that we can indulge ourselves in that fashion only so much. In the end, we read not for reading's sake, but to learn.

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.

My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading.

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

Reading books might itself be a bit weird, but obviously okay, since books were part of school, and doing well in school was clearly a good thing. But comics were more like candy, just flashy wrappers without any nourishment. Cheap thrills.

I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be able to read it and enjoy it as much as a child would.

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

I think really good books can be read by anybody.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

A good book written for children can be read by adults.

Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.

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

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.

My personal view is that reading has to be balanced. Obviously, there's a certain amount of reading that we have to do academically to continue to learn and to grow, but it's got to be balanced with fun and with elective reading. Whether that's comic books or Jane Austen, if it makes you excited about reading, that's what matters.

I also really like to read good books and I don't have enough time to do it. So it's really hard for me to imagine willingly submitting myself to a trilogy of books that I've been told are at the fourth grade reading level which isn't a very nice thing to say but.

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.

One should learn from a book. Books have a lot to teach us. They have a lot of empathy to impart to us, but they should also be fun. This stuff is fun! You shouldn't pick up a book and say, "Oh my god, I'm gonna better myself by reading this." You may better yourself by reading this, but who cares? Just have fun.