No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely that you will not only — Burton Rascoe, The Joys of Reading: Life's Greatest Pleasure
No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely that you will not only — Burton Rascoe, The Joys of Reading: Life's Greatest Pleasure
No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely that you will not only — Burton Rascoe, The Joys of Reading: Life's Greatest Pleasure
No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely that you will not only — Burton Rascoe, The Joys of Reading: Life's Greatest Pleasure
No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely that you will not only — Burton Rascoe, The Joys of Reading: Life's Greatest Pleasure
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No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely that you will not only get nothing out of it but that you will have toward the book and its author a repugnance that is unwarranted.

— Burton Rascoe, The Joys of Reading: Life's Greatest Pleasure
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