Recreational Reading Quotes

My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

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

Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based.

When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.

Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists. But try to pitch it to a group of non-readers, and they quickly become suspicious.

The book on my nightstand right now isnt anything that inspired me, but it entertained me. I read a book on Labor Day, it was a holiday, and I have three daughters, and we all went to the shopping mall and I sat on the bench and read a book while they shopped, it was called The Greatest Golfer there Ever Was, it was a great book, easy to read and entertaining.

If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

I just stopped reading a lot of books. I mean, I read books that I have to read for school, but I don't actually pick up a book and read for fun. On my time off, I go to movies, hang out with friends, go shopping...just little things.

Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.

This is the great luxury of not working: the moment you read a book that has nothing to do with work, you know you're really relaxed. And I have a sh*t attention span. I can't concentrate for more than five minutes.

'Recreative' is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don't like the way that 'recreational' sounds - I don't like to say I do a lot of 'recreational' reading. I like to say that I read 'recreatively.' I do a lot of 'recreative' reading.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

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

I learned how to sit on the couch in front of the fire and read a magazine, just for like eight hours a day, every day. It was... crazy.

Some people read books for fun.

I sometimes get tired because I can seldom read a book for pleasure. I'm like the play reviewer who happens to go to a play on an off day and can't help but view it critically.

Vacation reading is not a new concept. Ever since the 19th century, when novels were considered relatively sinful indulgences, leisure and fiction-reading have been closely associated.