Books Quote by Joseph Brodsky

Reading is a pleasure, yes, but not without effort: choosing to read novels purely because they mirror your own experience is stultifying.

— Dawn Foster

I haven't read for pleasure in 35 years. I mean, I get a lot of pleasure from what I read... For me, it's gotten…

— Michael Dirda

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best…

— Karl Kraus

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

“Please stop patronizing those who are reading a book - The Da Vinci Code, maybe- because they are enjoying it. For a start, none…

— Nick Hornby

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and…

— David Nicholls

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

— Mario

If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.

— Nora Roberts

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

“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

“Literature is a source of pleasure, he said, it is one of the rare inexhaustible joys in life, but it's not only that. It…

— Laurence Cossé

Every book leaves its mark on you. It might leave you hungry for that kind of book or you may be satiated, and you're…

— Laila Lalami