J. K. Rowling Quotes

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.

I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.

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

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.

I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I finished the fifteenth, I discovered I was three pages from the next chapter. Might as well end with a clean break. After I was done, I sighed and leaned back, feeling decadent and spent. Pure bliss. Books were a lot less messy than orgasms.

My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

Some people read books for fun.

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

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

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

The printed page was like wine to me.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure