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  • To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.

  • Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press, knows that on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.

    Reading   Political   Use  
    "'Cold' nurses are an easy target - blame rotten NHS management" by Jo Brand, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.
  • The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

    Forbes, (p. 42), April 1948.
  • If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

    Book   Reading   Writing  
    Oscar Wilde (1950). “Essays”, Ayer Company Pub
  • This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.

    Reading   People   Want  
  • Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore.

    On "Mortal Love" at HarperCollins, 2004.
  • If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

  • Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

  • In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

    E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.98, RosettaBooks
  • Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.

    "National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Must Go!" by Jon Scieszka, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
  • One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

  • One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

    Book   Reading   Pages  
    Paul Theroux (2011). “To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux”, p.131, Ivy Books
  • No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

    Book   Reading   Library  
    Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.

    Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.36, Penguin
  • The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

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

    Reading   Cows   Pleasure  
  • The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

    Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”
  • ...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

    Book   Reading   Rivers  
    Arthur Ransome (2013). “Fishing”, p.9, Cambridge University Press
  • Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

    Book   Reading   People  
    Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.385, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.

    Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”
  • You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

  • The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

    Book   Reading   Literacy  
    Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

    Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.120, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

    Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1985). “Gossip”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
  • A great book should leave you with many experiences.

    William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

    Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
  • We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets.

  • The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

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