Reading Novels Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting… — Keith Green
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 have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels. — Ernest Gaines
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels.… — Patrick Marber
I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as… — Dana Spiotta
When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been… — Peter York
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. — Claire Danes
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as… — Claire Danes
the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon — Elizabeth Bowen
I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day. — Julia Quinn
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely lifeâ€¦ Not that I knew what I wanted in life… — Haruki Murakami
Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe… — Noam Chomsky
Sylvieâ€™s knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, â€˜The sign that one has acquired oneâ€™s learning from reading novels rather than an educationâ€¦ — Kate Atkinson
I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a… — Cynthia Kenyon
It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels are… — Graham Swift

Who Wrote These Reading Novels Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 15 Reading Novels Quotes as follows: