Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you. The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

You live several lives while reading. William Styron. Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head. Paul Auster.