“I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“It is possible to read too many novels. Henry Tileny, Northanger Abbey” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't. — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
I've read enough novels to know just how much time & energy it takes to fall in love and I just don't… — Alexandra Kollontai Copy Share Image
I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“I read as many novels as you do. Maybe more. I'm just not sure I want to write one.” — Lenore Appelhans Copy Share Image
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
The sad thing is that I only ever read novels in bed and now only on the iPad, and thanks to Netflix… — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“I read novels to indulge in a concentrated and directed inner activity that parallels -- and thereby tunes up, accentuates -- my… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they… — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“I read novels with the utmost pertinaity. I look upon them - I look upon good novels - as a very valuable… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
I often say to my students in workshops that if they are trying to find literary inspiration, they should not go and… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
“I am not usually such a sluggard," he said, as we walked quickly along the street, "but yesterday evening I got a… — R. Austin Freeman Copy Share Image
For the past few years my fans have made it very clear that they would like to read my novels and revisit… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
In Pakistan, many of the young people read novels because in the novels, not just my novels but the novels of many… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Oh! No, I only mean what I have read about. It always puts me in mind of the country that Emily and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a… — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.”… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I would like my novels to be read the way I read the novels I love. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
Often I don't read novels. The script is more important, that's the springboard to your imagination, really. Peripheral information can be interesting… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
![“It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading novels is actually good for you. It embeds you in society and makes you think about other people. People are certainly better at all sorts of…” quote by Philip Hensher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00c/philip-hensher-35347_books_it-fiction-allows-us-to-see-the-world-fr_1107125.jpg)
