Reading Delight Quotes

The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump.

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

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

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

You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

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.

I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.

. . . she read with undifferentiated glee . . .