Dorothy Parker Quotes

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.

As a reader, sometimes, I just want to not think. You know, I want to read something that is purely enjoyable: that is, like, escapist.

Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

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

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong?

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance.

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!

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

I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I'm in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.

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

Reading is, hands-down, my favorite activity.

I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.

I don't really buy a weekly magazine but do flick through them if they're in front of me. A bit of style and a dose of gossip is just what you need sometimes.

I want people to be open to the idea of sitting down and reading a Dickens book. They will also have a great time.

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

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

Try squeezing a handful of water, and see how quickly it disappears. But relax and let your hand flow in the same water, and you have the experience of the water as long as you like.

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.