Top 100 Enjoy Reading Quotes
#1. I tend to listen to music more than I read. I need to get into reading a bit more. The stuff I tend to read is usually non-fiction books more than fiction, but I've been trying to power my way through Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment,' and I do enjoy it.
Isaac Hempstead-Wright
#2. But I'm not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us. Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative. Maybe that's one of the reasons we enjoy it.
Anthony Horowitz
#3. Never tell your reader what your story is about. Reading is a participatory sport. People do it because they are intelligent and enjoy figuring things out for themselves.
(advicetowriters)
George V. Higgins
#4. It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.
Jonathan Franzen
#5. I write stories, that I would enjoy reading and scenarios that have never been done before. I hope my fans enjoy the ride-Erik Dean.
Erik Dean
#6. I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.
Meg Tilly
#7. Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
Jeannette Walls
#8. I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.
Ed Oxenbould
#9. Walking, talking, reading, drawing, praying, telling stories: the nourishment is there, as close as our own breath. We only have to pause a moment, notice, and enjoy.
Christian McEwen
#10. Learn to read deeply. It will slowly open your mind's eye, and will be able to see the secret beauty of the universe and understand its deeper essence.
Debasish Mridha
#11. I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer.
Dree Hemingway
#12. If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
#13. If parents simply read for pleasure at home on their own, their children were more likely to enjoy reading, too. That pattern held fast across very different countries and different levels of family income. Kids could see what parents valued, and it mattered more than what parents said.
Amanda Ripley
#14. Purple Mike promises to be an intriguing read that will teach anyone who wants to know about the highs and lows of drug addiction. Purple Mike is a legal, natural high. Enjoy reading.
Sin Mils
#15. If you enjoy reading something, read it.
S.E. Hinton
#16. I declare, there is no enjoyment like reading.
Jane Austen
#17. I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are like a reservoir of stories, and if I can act as a similar kind of "reservoir," albeit a modest one, that would make me very happy.
Haruki Murakami
#18. I enjoy reading and I'm a huge kindle fan, the device you can read eBooks with. One of the best inventions of all times. I just recently purchased a Dostojewski collection, for just $1. At that rate I will probably own 3 million books soon.
Robert Pattinson
#19. There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.
D.E. Stevenson
#20. Reading is a lot like fine dining ... Some readers prefer just the meat and potatoes; I enjoy a seven-course meal.
Carmen DeSousa
#21. A smart philosipher once said reading is like life so enjoy it"
-Maggie
LIFE Magazine
#22. I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers, I like reading the blogs, I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry.
Megyn Kelly
#23. I don't enjoy writing newspaper articles any more than people like reading them. I'm a standup comic, not a journalist, although sometimes onstage I will say: 'What else is in the news?' Writing is work, which I'm not comfortable with.
Andy Kindler
#24. I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#25. Sure, okay, enjoy World Book Day but celebrating reading one day a year is like "getting some" only on Valentine's Day.
Harlan Coben
#27. I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.
Alasdair Gray
#28. There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or listening to recorded books. Why scold the impulse to enjoy language and narrative in whatever form it takes?
Marilynne Robinson
#29. Though I enjoy the occasional eBook from time to time, I will only stop reading books printed on paper when they pry them from my cold, dead, withered hands, and even then, they will be hard pressed to take them from me.
H.L. Stephens
#30. My goal is to encourage our little ones to make reading a habit. To enjoy picking up a book. So that the habit continues throughout life.
Andrea L'Artiste
#31. You can't write any form of fiction unless you enjoy reading it. You must be sincere in your approach. It's no good despising the form. So many people think they could earn some money from writing something for which they have no affection. It won't work. The first thing you have to have is belief.
Charlotte Bingham
#32. I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.
Guy Johnson
#33. Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain.
James Wolcott
#34. In any case, I would prefer to read something I don't enjoy than do almost anything else. I like the act of reading itself. Following the line of something - not just the story but the rhythm, the tone, the feel of what has accumulated from before and what is beginning to impend ...
Nuala O'Faolain
#35. Rising numbers of children enjoy reading and are increasingly likely to read outside the classroom, a study has found.
Anonymous
#36. I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.
Vladimir Putin
#37. When I meet children at book signings, they'll bring me photos of when I first met them many years ago when they were reading my picture books, and now they're telling me how much they enjoy my novels.
Grace Lin
#38. I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read children's books, adult books, current authors, and classics, but I like fiction the most.
James Howe
#39. I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.
David Sedaris
#40. One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!
Gary Gygax
#41. I write for those who desire, not publication at any cost, but publication one can be proud of
serious, honest fiction, the kind of novel that readers will find they enjoy reading more than once, the kind of fiction likely to survive.
John Gardner
#42. The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them.
Stephen King
#43. I don't give any book a big chance. If it isn't interesting from the get-go, I let go. Sure I paid for the book, but I don't have to pay more in my time to read a book that bores me. If I don't enjoy reading it, why read it? For my original investment in the book? That's silly.
Jon Spoelstra
#44. Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.
Donalyn Miller
#45. Many who read their Bibles make the great mistake of confining all their reading to certain portions of the Bible which they enjoy. In this way they get no knowledge of the Bible as a whole. They miss altogether many of the most important phases of Bible truth.
R.A. Torrey
#46. There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#47. Every time a written word is put to page it is the opportunity to expand our minds, whether we are the writer or the reader. Enjoy the journey wherever it may take you!
K. Lamb
#48. You should enjoy every seconded for reading"- Ayah
Ayah
#49. We can enjoy Heaven now. We can have half of the enjoyment ahead of time by looking forward to it, thinking about it, reading about it and anticipating it.
David Berg
#50. I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.
Jeffery Deaver
#51. If I eat mindlessly while watching television, reading, or talking with someone else, I can go through an entire meal without tasting the food, without even noticing that I've been eating. The plate is empty but I didn't enjoy the food - I had all of the calories and little of the pleasure.
Dean Ornish
#52. What makes a good book? Simply put, a good book is one that you enjoy reading.
Carmela Dutra
#53. The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
Candace Camp
#54. I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.
Antony Beevor
#55. I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about.
Sean Astin
#56. Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.
Peter Morgan
#57. Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.
Atwood H. Townsend
#58. I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.
Evangeline Lilly
#59. There are 2 motives for reading a book; 1. That you enjoy it, 2. that can boast about it on goodreads.
Bertrand Russell
#60. There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
Bertrand Russell
#61. Whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it.
Eve Merriam
#62. I hope that you enjoy reading my dreams in as much as I had in dreaming them.
G.R. Holton
#63. I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
Erica Jong
#64. A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it.
Aman Jassal
#65. Reading takes you on a wonderful journey to places you have probably never been. Sit back and enjoy your journey.
Marjorie Taylor
#66. Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants to enjoy the book but also, as a writer, noticing the techniques that the writer uses and especially the ones that make you want to turn the page to see what happened.
Homer Hickam
#67. I didn't really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to each other every day. I enjoy reading now, and there is a whole world of books out there to explore.
Roger McGuinn
#68. I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.
Jessye Norman
#69. The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material.
Charles Clark
#70. I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
Brian Greene
#71. Our top design objective was for Kindle Paperwhite to disappear in your hands - to get out of the way - so you can enjoy your reading. We hope
Anonymous
#72. Difference is always the biggest challenge for humans. That's why we do enjoy reading or watching movies or watching TV. It's a personal challenge to get close to people that we never get close to.
Franka Potente
#73. Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.
Victor Borge
#75. The blessings we enjoy now are because we made the choice to follow the Savior before this life. To everyone hearing or reading these words, whoever you are and whatever your past may be, remember this: it is not too late to make that same choice again to follow him.
Robert D. Hales
#76. I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they think?
Orhan Pamuk
#77. I write for myself first and foremost, but I hope that others will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Shannon DuBey
#78. I enjoy getting any kind of mail. Like, for me, like, the more interesting a letter is, I just get more excited, and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.
Adrian Tomine
#79. 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
#80. If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.
Lemony Snicket
#81. I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.
Marie Dressler
#82. Basically I'm a female human being with brown hair, enjoy precision, reading the news, eating delicious food with my delicious friends and laughing at ridiculous things that don't translate while you are desperately trying to make them.
Tig Notaro
#84. We're too practical, I guess. You've got to be something of a dreamer to enjoy books
Katarina Bivald
#85. I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.
Rebecca Eaton
#86. I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.
Kathryn Harrison
#87. If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!
Mr. T
#88. I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
Ken Follett
#89. I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.
Thornton Wilder
#90. I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if I might be able to write material that others would enjoy reading.
Peg Kehret
#91. One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.
Lauren Conrad
#92. The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.
Agatha Christie
#93. I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.
Rihanna
#94. I rather enjoy that sense of bewilderment a novel gives you when you start reading it, but if the first effect is fog, I'm afraid the moment the fog lifts my pleasure in reading will be lost, too.
Italo Calvino
#95. Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.
Joan D. Vinge
#96. Life without fun is boring ,so enjoy your life by reading books.
Myself
#97. If you enjoy reading my books as much as I enjoy writing them, then I am happy. Its got nothing to do with the money.
Peter Rimmer
#98. That's what I used to enjoy so much: Bringing a record home, having it arrive in the mailbox. Having the whole experience of hearing it as you're holding it and looking at it and reading the liner notes, if they're anything.
John Darnielle
#99. Find a quiet place, and just read. If you're reading an ebook, clear away everything else but your ebook reader.
Then you settle into the reading, and enjoy it. Bask in the luxury of reading without distractions.
Leo Babauta
#100. Every once in a while you come across a novel that reminds you why you think you enjoy reading in the first place.
Graham Parke
