Top 84 Quotes About Fun Reading
#1. Dear teachers, please make reading and writing fun. Reading and writing shouldn't be a punishment while in school. I ask you to create and teach two electives: "Reading for Pleasure" and "Writing for Pleasure".
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#2. I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
Rex Stout
#3. Hey! Thanks for taking the time to read Trapped in a Video Game: Book Three. I hope you had as much fun reading it as I had writing it. I'm currently working on Book Three, and I plan on releasing it December, 2016.
Dustin Brady
#4. Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You'd be amazed at the places they say I've been.
Bobby Brown
#5. If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'
Dan Brown
#7. Of all the characters I've played, I relate the most to Isabel in Hugo. She's so adventurous and fun. She just loves reading books and those are her adventures. Isabel is a heightened version of my personality.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#8. My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.
Bill Gates
#9. The only thing I would want to say is that storytelling is ancient; it's something that everybody does. Kids mustn't be in awe of it. Reading should be a joy - fun, fun, fun - not a responsibility, not something you do because society demands it, but something you do because it's a pleasure.
Natalie Babbitt
#10. She was the type of librarian who has "Reading is supposed to be educational, not fun" tattooed somewhere.
Molly Harper
#11. Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.
Colin Hanks
#13. A naive, excitable teenaged reader is a beautiful thing. Someone who's never heard of Elizabeth Bennet or Jay Gatsby, until you tell him. And they all still believe in truth. That's the fun of it.
Holly LeCraw
#14. Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk.
John Leguizamo
#15. Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading a book - the pleasure it bring us, something too many boil down to a dirty word: FUN.
Jim Trelease
#16. Jessie reached for 'Ten Bright Ideas to Light Up Your Sales'. It was on her bedside table, right next to 'Charlotte's Web'. Jessie's hand hovered. She looked longingly at Wilbur and Fern watching Charlotte hanging b a thread.
But this was war, and she couldn't stop to read for fun.
Jacqueline Davies
#17. Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.
[Arthur]
PBS Kids
#18. I don't get to watch a lot of TV. I just do all my news and reading and 'Meet the Press,' all that fun, exciting stuff.
Graham Elliot
#19. George Bowering doesn't play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against it. Bowering has a sense of story and an eye for detail that eliminate the possibility that he was a lousy second baseman. Reading a home run is fun.
Robert Kroetsch
#20. I like the Twilight series. I thought it was fun. I don't like vampires personally, I don't know any; but you know my granddaughter was reading it and I thought, well this looks like fun so I read that.
Mitt Romney
#21. I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a girl lying on the floor, reading 'Gossip Girl.'
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#22. Final installment of Things More Fun Than Reading the Sarah Palin Memoir: Driving into a tree, microwaving your head, and getting stabbed in the eye with a carrot.
David Letterman
#23. It's fun for me to be with someone who loves reading as much as I do, because he'll give me things to read that I wouldn't normally seek out, and I think vice versa.
Zoe Kazan
#24. I grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Reading, PA. It was the most magical fun childhood. We had grape arbours and we would make jam with my mom. My dad would go to work and he'd come home. He'd clean out stalls and fix split-row fences.
Taylor Swift
#25. The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.
James Patterson
#26. He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.
James Salter
#27. That's the nature of the truth, though. What's fun about being dropped into ice water? That's why half the world walks around wearing rose-colored glasses, watching comedies and reading romance books.
Tarryn Fisher
#28. The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and make sure that reading is a fun, rewarding experience outside the classroom.
Rick Riordan
#29. I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.
Bat For Lashes
#30. Heard a rumor you can't cook," he said.
She didn't look away from her reading. "You know rumors.
They're always true."
She had him there. According to some of the tabloids, he had fourteen love children, two with aliens and one with the sister of Bigfoot.
Jamie Farrell
#31. What's cheaper than a gallon of gas? An ebook. Save a dollar, stay home and read!
Shandy L. Kurth
#32. We support all actions that lead to the joy, the fun, the reward, the challenge, and the adventure of reading.
Paul Acampora
#33. Anyone can take an adventure even if it's only in your own backyard. Let your imagination be your adventure and see where it takes you.
Carmela Dutra
#34. Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I'm working on right now. It's a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it's going to be fun.
Billy Campbell
#35. I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun is just to watch a lot of bad TV. That's how I relax and stay in touch with modern culture.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#36. Life without fun is boring ,so enjoy your life by reading books.
Myself
#37. We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.
Kevin Smokler
#38. The fun comes in telling them yourself - something I warmly encourage you to do, you person reading this. Read the stories in this book, then make them your own,
Neil Gaiman
#39. The more you read within a balanced life, the more time you have. Strange but true.
Mark Donnelly
#40. If you don't laugh reading this book I'll eat my pocket protector. Wait, did I just admit I had a pocket protector?
Nicole Fende
#41. Making reading an enjoyable activity for children is a challenge. So I ensure that I write in a way that is fun for children to read.
Ken Spillman
#42. I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.
James Patterson
#43. They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.
Katie Couric
#44. When you get pregnant, you start reading pregnancy books. Everything has been pretty textbook. It's amazing how they can say, 'This week, this might happen,' and it kind of does. I had typical nausea the first trimester, which was no fun. And extreme tiredness.
Anna Silk
#45. So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you're not just reading about it, Meggie, and playing hero wasn't half as much fun as I'd expected.
Cornelia Funke
#46. I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.
Jim Davis
#47. I think people tend to forget that as celebrities we are still human. We have the same emotions - we cry, we have fun, we laugh, we get sad, and we get hurt. When something is written about you, which millions of people are reading, and it is not true, imagine how hurtful it can be.
Sania Mirza
#48. When I cook with my son, I might chop vegetables and have fun with different shapes. Cooking is a way to teach kids about other things, like reading or math with all of the weights and measures. There are so many things that are part of cooking that are also very educational.
Emeril Lagasse
#49. I love to write, and I love to read too, but that doesn't mean I like to write about reading - 'cause nothing ruins the fun of reading a good story like the evil English army of Discuss, Analyze, and that hideous duo Compare and Contrast.
Kevin Emerson
#50. I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book.
Louis Sachar
#51. The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we can't normally talk about."
David Foster Wallace
#52. A good interviewer is able to ferret out what the applicant is really passionate about. Ask them what they do for fun, what they're reading, try and find out if they have a life outside of work.
Nolan Bushnell
#53. And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun.
Nick Hornby
#54. As if reading her mind, he leaned into her again, pupils dark, irises glowing like a forest caught in the last rays of sun before dusk ... "Do you want me to make you come?"
"Is that a trick question?
Dianna Hardy
#55. Author visits are a fun way to engage kids, and encourage reading!
Carmela Dutra
#56. There's a story behind every Bookworm"!
Annie Lang
#57. It's fun to act, but for me, it's more fun to actually create the character and act it out knowing that I know everything about this character. That's more fun to me than just reading lines.
Shane Dawson
#59. Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are reading.* How obvious the thought seems once it has been articulated! As with love, politics, or friendship: readiness is all.
Vivian Gornick
#60. I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.
Alasdair Gray
#61. In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture!
Dwayne Hickman
#62. It's a sad state of affairs when we make fun of people for reading instead of making reading fun for people.
Jen Selinsky
#63. Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure, that they must be guided into creativity.
Madeleine L'Engle
#64. I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun.
Caroline B. Cooney
#65. In reading Twain, I often suspect he is having more fun than I am.
Gabrielle Zevin
#66. I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I write in before bed. But the last thing I want is other people reading it ... What's really fun is reading your journal, like a year later ...
Cameron Diaz
#67. Like the roller coaster of life ... novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.
Carmen DeSousa
#68. I don't pick the roles. Your agent gets a call for you and you go and they all get together, everybody has fun at the reading, and they say, "There's chemistry here." So that's how it happens.
Mickey Rooney
#69. Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.
Bill Vaughan
#70. He was delighted to recognize his own human name on two of the papers; he always got an odd thrill out of reading it, as if he were two places at once.
Robert A. Heinlein
#71. I suppose it can't hurt to have a little fun every now and then. I'd normally prefer to have a lot of fun by reading something, but..
Anonymous
#72. Maybe they'll start making serialized movies. I watched the first couple seasons of '24' and it's really fun. I bought the DVD and watched it over a month or so and it's great. It's like reading a novel. It has a lot of possibilities that are more difficult to accomplish with a film.
Jeremy Sisto
#73. I just stopped reading a lot of books. I mean, I read books that I have to read for school, but I don't actually pick up a book and read for fun. On my time off, I go to movies, hang out with friends, go shopping ... just little things.
Mark Indelicato
#74. In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do - spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.
Julia Cameron
#75. I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun with it.
Anjelica Huston
#76. In these economic times, reading is still the only affordable & fun luxury left....
J.d. Rosy
#77. My idea of a fun night was diving into a massive pile of To Be Read pile of books stacked near my dresser ... I was the girl who loved everything geeky.
Jeff Sampson
#78. I grew up reading a lot of superhero comics, so it's really fun to take a shot at one myself and see what happens.
Jeff Lemire
#79. Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read
clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've read in quite some time and just plain reading fun. M.J. Rose is at the top of her game, and that is saying something.
David Liss
#80. I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren't exactly literary. So what? They're fun and rip-roaring, Who instituted the book police and why do we have to answer them? Grrrrr!
Jennifer Donnelly
#83. I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.
Margaret Haddix
#84. It's fun to twist fairy tales, but at the same time, I know I need to write stories that are different enough from each other that fans don't feel like they're just reading the same story over and over again.
Janette Rallison
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