Art Quote by Raymond Chandler

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

— Raymond Chandler

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.

— Charles Clarke

Reading for pleasure isn’t separate from learning to read.

— Pam Allyn

It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.

— Henry David Thoreau

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

— Dan Rather

“She belonged to that rare and objectionable species, the intellectual snob devoid of intellect.”

— Nancy Mitford

When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.

— Sandra Cisneros

“I often say that reading and writing saved my life. I mean that quite literally.”

— Roxane Gay

I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who…

— Walter Dean Myers

“Running records capture what young readers say and do while reading continuous text, usually short stories or books. Having taken the record teachers can…

— Marie Clay

Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do. But as…

— Anna Quindlen

A man I know who writes and aspires to be a novelist does very little reading, and he's not that successful. But I think…

— Robert Cormier