Reading Satisfaction Quotes

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot.

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

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

I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.

This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.

Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished 'The Road', I started it straight away and didn't put it down until I finished - it was such an achievement and relief to know that I could read, comprehend and, most importantly, enjoy a book!

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in the questions that arise as we read, in the answers that we find, in the degree of satisfaction or unease we feel with those answers...In the hands of a different reader, the same story can be a different story.

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

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

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

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Some books are like an hors d'oeuvre - light, tasty and leaving you longing for the main course which is never going to come - and some are like Christmas lunch immediately after a cooked breakfast.

If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.

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

I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, — and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes — each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs — quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words.

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.

I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.