Accountability Quote by Jim Trelease

“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.”

— Nick Hornby

“Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's…

— Aidan Chambers

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

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous…

— Alberto Manguel

“BOOKS GOOD BOOKES FUN”

— Julien Jasso

“Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is…

— Atwood H. Townsend

A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I…

— Henry David Thoreau

We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Read what gives you delight—at least most of the time—and do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort of person…

— Alan Jacobs

“A good book is like a stream, with which we can flow slowly, playfully, it lets us savor the joy of weaving the magic…

— Balroop Singh

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

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind…

— Wendy Lesser