Pleasure Of Reading Quotes - Page 2

• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Stupid

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

  E. M. Forster

  Reading, People, Understanding

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.98, RosettaBooks

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• Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press, knows that on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.

  Jo Brand

  Reading, Political, Use

  "'Cold' nurses are an easy target - blame rotten NHS management" by Jo Brand, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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• The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  Reading, Letters, Biographies

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1985). “Gossip”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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