Reading for Pleasure Quotes

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

And you love to read, you love to escape, right?

If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes you money, you also run the risk of depriving the child for ever of the value of it. Markets are not innocent.

I got my first professional job at Harvard, at the Loeb Drama Center, and I remember sitting on campus one day under a tree - I was doing 'Threepenny Opera.' I was reading a book, and the light caught me, and I thought, 'I want to be in the movies.'

I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one.

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.

But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

I love doing the readings. The readings are the fun bits... The readings are probably the things that actually keep me going on these. If I couldn't do the readings, I wouldn't do the [signing] tours. I get to stand up there and read to a bunch of adults who in many cases nobody's read to in years, since they were about five. They just squat on the floor. That's enormously enjoyable.

And as for me, thogh that I can but lyte, On bakes for to rede I me delyte, And to hem yeve I feyth and ful credence, And in myn herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that ther is game noon, That fro my bokes maketh me to goon, But hit be seldom, on the holyday; Save, certeynly, when that the month of May Is comen, and that I here the foules singe, And that the floures ginnen for to springe, Farwel my book and my devocion.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

I subscribe to 'National Geographic,' 'Scientific American,' 'Discover,' and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.

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

One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

I have an aunt who believed strongly that teaching kids that Shakespeare is 'hard' is wrong, so she handed me 'Hamlet' when I was in kindergarten to see what would happen. What happened was I did a book report on 'Hamlet' and caused quite a lot of trouble!

Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and Prejudice or my personal favorite,Understanding Sleep Disorders: Narcolepsy and Apnea; A Clinical Study. Taking some time to read each night really taught me how to feign narcolepsy when my husband asked me what my "plan" was for taking down the Christmas tree.

I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.

But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.

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