Amusement Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.”

— John P. Marquand

“Once you learn to read minds you lose interest in reading books”

— Sheetal Vijay

People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

— Doris Lessing

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf

Reading is fundamental - fun to mental.

— Eddie Griffin

The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.

— Guy Davenport

“Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses”

— Steve Aylett

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

— Alison Pill

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

— John Burdett

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is…

— Samuel Johnson

“I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always were. Reading…

— Julian Barnes

Books are the spiritual and intellectual food of the mind, and reading is a great enjoyment for those who desire to improve their mental…

— Anonymous