The mere brute pleasure of reading – the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Gilbert K. Chesterton – Pleasure of reading
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Joseph Addison – Reading
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide – Reading
Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Hazel Rochman – Reading
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
Angela Carter – Reading
I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.
Charles De Secondat – Reading
Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!
Rainer Maria Rilke – Reading
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
Anthony Trollope – Reading
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
Arthur Helps – Reading
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Thomas Hardy – Pleasure, Reading
Beware of substituting reading for thinking. Reading about the thoughts of others is not the same as having thoughts of your own. The great thinkers inspire, provoke, confirm, and in other ways help you to do your own thinking. But to think you must at some point lay down the book and strike out on your own.
Reading and thinking
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."
Taste for reading
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
Habit of reading
In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation
In reading
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, – from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away; and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
