My life reads more like Proust than a tabloid.

You know, the more grown-up you are, the more you like Proust.

— Sonia Rykiel

That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional job of…

— Truman Capote

“Be, like Proust, a fanatic of time. ”

— Guillermo Arango

You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was…

— Paulo Coelho

“My work comprises one vast book like Proust's except that my remembrances are written on the run instead of afterwards in a sick bed.”

— Jack Kerouac

“The English major is, first of all, a reader. She's got a book pup-tented in front of her nose many hours a day; her…

— Mark Edmundson

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

There is no way for me to replicate for you what a sentence reads like for a Chinese reader.

— Ken Liu

“Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.”

— Victor LaValle

Everyone who reads me is someone I'd like to hang out with.

— Jen Lancaster

More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.

— Craig Brown

“This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not…

— Arlaina Tibensky

Im tatted from my face to my foot so my body reads like a good book

— Nipsey Hussle

History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.

— Robert Penn Warren

It (The New York Times) reads like it was edited by two elderly sociologists, one of whom has been dead for many years

— Garrison Keillor