Reading For Pleasure Quotes

“How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?"

If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?"

Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "Touché. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story...”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“As a child I very much objected to books that tried to teach me something. I just wanted to read for pleasure, and I did.”
― Beverly Cleary

“They insisted that the pleasure of reading is not necessarily just about providing pleasure to the mind, but to the heart, the emotions, the body and – for those who believe in these things- the soul. The problem is that this kind of appreciation of literature has been shrouded in embarrassment and shame for a long time”
― Jodie Archer, The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of a Blockbuster Novel

“The book you read and read well, over and over again, lives in you, becomes your thought and thinking pattern, teaches you all the time and keeps reminding you about how to act and react towards things and occurrences’ in life!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Some readers turn up their noses at such books, considering them to be too lowbrow. But not I. One who reads such a book reads it for pleasure, for joy.
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― Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary