ysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write…

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

— Fred Saberhagen

“I just read them for fun." "Dictionaries?" "Yes." "That doesn't sound like fun. That sounds awful." "Awful used to mean 'full of awe.' The…

— Max Barry

I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about.…

— Sarah Chalke

I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.

— Alasdair Gray

I've never thought that it made sense to put something out that I didn't actually find really fun to read. Or, if not "fun,"…

— Lorin Stein

I've always had the notion that people go to spectator sports to have fun and then they grab the paper to read about it…

— Walter Wellesley Smith

I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as…

— Margaret Haddix

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was…

— Adora Svitak

“I read for fun, deal with it.”

— Nanette Jimenez

“I read for fun and to escape the mundaneness that is reality, to get lost in make-believe worlds where good always triumphs over evil.”

— Erica Cope

Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“One day after the exams, the teachers sat at their desks correcting papers while the pupils read comics, played chess or cards or talked…

— Alasdair Gray

“If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am I? What…

— Richard Rhodes

I never want to write something until I know every scene in the movie. I don't want someone hiring me and then me not…

— Stephen Sommers

Reading English novels I always adore the ability to write without fear about inner psychological things that are so delicate.

— Olga Tokarczuk