As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything… — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather… — Keith Green Copy Share Image
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
“It's because of the way you are. It's why you're happy reading novels. You're only comfortable with a piece of the world… — Lan Samantha Chang Copy Share Image
People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“What am I to give the housemaids here? and do you object to my reading novels, if Lady Eskdale says there is… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things.… — Peter York 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
Even as a child, I had walked down streets reading novels, waiting for my feet to get stuck in tar as I… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Of course, reading novels was just another form of escape. As soon as he closed their pages he had to come back… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
“You really love to gossip, don't you?” he asked, wishing she had brought him a glass of wine. “Yes, I suppose I… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
I've been thinking a lot about why it was so important to me to do The Idiot as a novel, and not… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am)… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
“Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; it was through reading novels that I learned about… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
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