William McFee Quotes

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

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

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

If I couldn't use food or love to define contentment, I would use reading.

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

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

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

Books are a languid pleasure.

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.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

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.

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.

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.

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

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.

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

Year followed struggling year for me, and all that time I read - I suppose few have ever read so. I began, as most young people do, by reading the books I enjoyed. But I found that narrowed my pleasure.