Biographies Quote by Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

— Roberto Bolano

At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“Reading is a dialog with oneself; it is self-reflection, which cultivates profound humanity. Reading is therefore essential to our development. It expands and enriches…

— Daisaku Ikeda

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

“Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were scarce and…

— Aldous Huxley

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

— Celeste Ng

Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to…

— Nancy Pearl

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

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to…

— Susie Bright

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

— Raymond Chandler

I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as…

— Ann M. Martin