Aneurin Bevan Quotes

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

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.

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.

The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them.

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

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!

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

Reading should be a repeat performance.

I don't even know how people read new fiction anymore because there's so much old fiction that exists that seems great that's unread. It's overwhelming to me. But, I mean, I do read. But there probably haven't been many people less literate than me that have been in 'The Paris Review.'

When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.

I love reading for a character I have no business reading for.

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

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

I read and enjoy just about anything I can get my hands on.

I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like books very much. But the book that she lent me I really enjoyed.

I think sometimes parents and teachers can push children away from reading by telling them it's something they must do, the same way they must eat their greens and must pass their exams in school. Poppycock! Read or don't read - that's your call.