Read Novels Quotes

25 Read Novels quotes by 23 unique authors

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
I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't. — Philip Hensher
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I never even had the time to read novels. — George McGovern
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
People respect nonfiction but they read novels. — E. O. Wilson
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. — Carol Shields
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
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
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
Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks… — Thomas Hardy
Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell… — Thomas Hardy
How can you not understand?" He pointed at her books. "You read novels. Obviously, I'm here to rescue you. Don't I look like Sir Galahad?"… — Cassandra Clare
I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the… — Richard Dawkins
I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there. — Orhan Pamuk

Who Wrote These Read Novels Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 25 Read Novels Quotes as follows: