Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based.

The book on my nightstand right now isnt anything that inspired me, but it entertained me. I read a book on Labor Day, it was a holiday, and I have three daughters, and we all went to the shopping mall and I sat on the bench and read a book while they shopped, it was called The Greatest Golfer there Ever Was, it was a great book, easy to read and entertaining.

When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.

We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

Less smoking and more reading.

I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the computer now and get a lot of benefit out of it, but I doubt that it'll work as well as reading print worked for me.

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

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

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The more you read, the more you expand your - what's the word I'm looking for? - your stockpile of words. You must have a stockpile of words that you can pass along to your children for their stockpile.

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!

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.

Live always in the best company when you read.

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.

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.

Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists. But try to pitch it to a group of non-readers, and they quickly become suspicious.

I don't drink alcohol too late in the evening; I read a good book.