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“Rizal" is a compulsory course in school, but few teachers make Rizal's novels interesting. If students are taught to enjoy Rizal's works as literature…

— Ambeth Ocampo

This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are…

— F. Sionil Jose

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

— Ira Glass

“Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for granted. It…

— Paul De Man

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important…

— Nina Bawden

“Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses”

— Steve Aylett

“Oh! No, I only mean what I have read about. It always puts me in mind of the country that Emily and her father…

— Jane Austen

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary…

— Mark Kurlansky

“People sometimes act as though owning books you haven't read constitutes a charade or pretense, but for me, there's a lovely mystery and pregnancy…

— Leah Price

Reading is a pleasure, yes, but not without effort: choosing to read novels purely because they mirror your own experience is stultifying.

— Dawn Foster

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf