Anthony Trollope Reading Quotations

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

Easy reading requires hard writing,

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man. But that power I have never possessed. Something is always left--something dim and inaccurate--but still something sufficient to preserve the taste for more. I am inclined to think that it is so with most readers.