Books Quote by Richard Ford

I actually have a lot of guilty pleasures.

— Nikki DeLoach

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

— Piers Anthony

I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It`s like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the…

— Stephen King

Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!

— Mariella Frostrup

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because…

— Nora Roberts

I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps them with their own lives,…

— Cecelia Ahern

I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten…

— Raymond Chandler

It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures.…

— Ira Glass

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

— Tom Stoppard

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

— Jeffery Deaver

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

— Bryant H. McGill

My guiltiest pleasure is reading a novel with a glass of wine. I love to read voraciously. I always have. And I love to…

— Kasi Lemmons