Novel Reading Quotes

“Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” Reading Today Online, International Reading Association”

— Sharon Lovejoy

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that…

— Wilkie Collins

There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody…

— Van Morrison

“Peri disliked these dinner parties, which went on late into the night and often left her with a migraine the next day.…

— Elif Shafak

“-why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any…

— James Hilton

Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking…

— Dale Spender

“Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights...How wonderful it was when one sentence…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that…

— John Green

If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I…

— Philip Pullman

“Novel-reading is indeed unusually private, unusually personal, unusually intimate. It doesn’t happen out there, in front of our eyes; it happens in…

— Anonymous