Leisure Quote by James Madison

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

— Joan Rivers

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

— Stephen King

Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for…

— Thomas Jefferson

Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.

— James Patterson

I want leisure to read—an immense amount.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated,…

— Thomas S. Monson

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

— Raymond Chandler

“When reading a book, one hopes it doesn’t turn into a painful process. Predictable is bad enough. Laborious is acceptable if the labor produces…

— Chila Woychik

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore.

— Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

— Benjamin Franklin