Book Quote by Anonymous

I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with…

— Washington Irving

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

— Leigh Hunt

By the age of three ... I was already an addicted reader. I still crave daily immersion in experience other than my own; (it…

— Brigid Brophy

Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a…

— John Crowley

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of…

— Ian Bogost

“Pleasure demands constant and repeated stimulation to be felt for a common mind. If it is a book, one must finish one and move…

— Sov8840

For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.

— Mervyn Peake

“I dusted my books off, placing each one—sorted alphabetically and by genre—on the shelves Dad installed. What some people might call “anal,” I’d call…

— aileen erin

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

— Edward Gibbon

Books can be a source of solace, but I see them mainly as a source of pleasure, personal as well as esthetic.

— Michael Dirda

BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.

— Rob Brezsny