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  • As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography. -- Norman Spinrad
  • I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor. -- Sloane Crosley
  • All reading for pleasure is entertainment. -- Raymond Chandler
  • One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that. -- Charles Clarke
  • I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living. -- Raymond Chandler
  • I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book! -- Rachel Tucker
  • It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure. -- Kate DiCamillo
  • The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious - are far from conventionally heroic. -- John Burnside
  • Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years. -- Dorothea Dix
  • I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi. -- Lorraine Toussaint
  • I subscribe to 'National Geographic,' 'Scientific American,' 'Discover,' and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head. -- James Rollins
  • When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I sit up dutifully, mindful of ergonomics and suchlike concepts. When reading for pleasure, I take advantage of the 'recline' in recliner. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
  • 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. -- Malorie Blackman
  • It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke. -- Ira Glass
  • The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the protagonist from one novel you've read has a cameo role in another. I think that recognition is a very, very powerful phenomenon; it is one of the deepest and greatest pleasures of reading. -- Paul Harding
  • I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head. -- James Rollins
  • Reading for pleasure isn't separate from learning to read. -- Pam Allyn
  • For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths"¦ -- Roberto Bolano
  • This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it. -- J. K. Rowling
  • 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
  • A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance. -- Phyllis McGinley
  • When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries. -- David McCullough
  • 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
  • Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures. -- Irving Stone
  • To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it. -- Karl Kraus
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