Read Novels Quotes
25 quotes by 23 authors
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I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.
— Johnny Cash
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I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.
— Philip Hensher
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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…
— Philip Hensher
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I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same…
— Dawn French
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Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we…
— Banksy
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything…
— Jack L. Chalker
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We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense…
— John Dufresne
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We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s skin,…
— Steven Saylor
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I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something…
— Milton Babbitt
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Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and…
— Rajneesh
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To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that "overcome"…
— Tom Peters
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I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for…
— Frederick Wiseman
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I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's…
— Steve Zahn
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I never even had the time to read novels.
— George McGovern
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I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read…
— Charlie Kaufman
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
— E. O. Wilson
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This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.
— Carol Shields
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We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have…
— Orson Scott Card
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Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying…
— Patrick O'Brian
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But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the…
— George R. R. Martin
Who Wrote These Read Novels Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 Read Novels Quotes as follows: