The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
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.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.
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.
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.