One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust…

“A novel is not an allegory...it is a sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the…

— Azar Nafisi

“A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual experience of…

— Azar Nafisi

“When I read a novel I am not here. I am transported to far-off places, my eyes unseeing of the words on the page,…

— Nancy Moser

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

— Daniel Craig

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

“Heaven preserve us! what a hotch-potch!” cried Hubert. “Is that what they are doing nowadays? I very seldom read a novel, but when I…

— Henry James

One of my favorite things is to first read a novel and then see the movie. I enjoy picturing the characters and then later,…

— Camille Perri

“When you read a novel, it seems that everything is clear, trite and understandable. But when you yourself fall in love, you understand that…

— Sarah Ruhl

“To me, a recently read novel was like a miniature planet: only a few hours earlier I had been breathing its air and living…

— Julie Schumacher

To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two…

— Philip Roth

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf

“While we read a novel, we are insane - bonkers.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.

— Anna Quindlen