Books Quote by Bryant H. McGill

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

— Raymond Chandler

Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.

— Elizabeth Olsen

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

Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a…

— Anonymous

Entertaining the reader is a good function.

— David Denby

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

— Patricia Cornwell

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.

— Mario

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

— Alasdair Gray

Any time you can take a book a little beyond the realm of pure entertainment, I think it's a good thing. But I don't…

— Mary Roach

If you enjoy reading something, read it.

— S. E. Hinton

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

— Nora Roberts

I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre…

— Karin Slaughter