Geometry Quote by William Golding

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to…

— Stephen Greenblatt

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

— Paul Theroux

I guess I still feel that way and yet I'm slightly hesitant to insist on that idea, that it "better be fun for the…

— Rachel Kushner

The pleasure for me is in the writing process, which has its own challenges.

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

— Barbara Pym

When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of pleasure. Some…

— Martin Amis

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to…

— S. E. Hinton

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

— Nora Roberts

“Books give us pleasure not because they make us comfortable, though some good ones may, but because they entertain us, they make us laugh,…

— William McPherson

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any…

— William Hazlitt

“...there are pleasures to be had from books beyond being lightly entertained. There is the pleasure of being challenged; the pleasure of feeling one’s…

— Rebecca Mead

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

— Richard Steele