If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Someone who hasn't read a novel doesn't really know what it's about, William.” — John Irving Copy Share Image
I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's kind of a test when you read a novel thinking about its potential for the screen: How does it play on… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing. — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I read the novel 'Miracle at St. Anna' when it was first released, and I loved it. — Omar Benson Miller Copy Share Image
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time. — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“She lay on the bed to read a novel; she wanted to forget that bitter conversation and be carried along by the… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
I'm reading 'Ten Storey Love Song' by Richard Milward. I read his first novel, 'Apples,' after hearing a reading of his in… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I read scripts movie, TV and theater. I read every novel that is published. I read every book that comes out on… — Van Heflin Copy Share Image
“You should read the novel in order to live, to feel, to tell someone the hidden secret of it. Read as if… — Emma Brynstein Copy Share Image
Life is but an open Book, with many pages to fulfill. It is soely upon oneself to which the pages shall read.… — Mike D Copy Share Image
Some people will say, "Why read a comic book? It stifles the imagination. If you read a novel you imagine what people… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
“When you read a novel, it seems that everything is clear, trite and understandable. But when you yourself fall in love, you… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
As a kid, my brother and I would read the same novel, we'd memorize entire pages, reenact the book as it's characters,… — Irena A. Hoffman Copy Share Image
A novel is not an allegory… It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Certain kinds of things that the novel used to do, which was, "Oh, I'm living out here in West Nowhere, Nebraska and… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“It's little strange, perhaps, to make this claim at such a late date, but Gatsby really is an outstanding novel. I never… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“A novel is not an allegory...it is a sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
When I read a novel that I really like, I feel as if I am in direct, personal communication with the author.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Heaven preserve us! what a hotch-potch!” cried Hubert. “Is that what they are doing nowadays? I very seldom read a novel, but… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do. — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things is to first read a novel and then see the movie. I enjoy picturing the characters and… — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“In fact, while we read a novel, we are insane – bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“To me, a recently read novel was like a miniature planet: only a few hours earlier I had been breathing its air… — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and say, 'Wow,… — Beth Broderick Copy Share Image
To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
