Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
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All reading should be pleasurable! I don't like people who keep reeling out the 'books are so important' line. First and foremost, reading is about entertainment, the same as movies, video games and music.
What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.
Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know that we can indulge ourselves in that fashion only so much. In the end, we read not for reading's sake, but to learn.
Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.
I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
I haven't read for pleasure in 35 years. I mean, I get a lot of pleasure from what I read... For me, it's gotten so that it doesn't seem as though I've read a book unless I've written about it. It really seems the completion of the reading process.
I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.