Books Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

— T. E. Lawrence

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious…

— Karl Marlantes

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will…

— Zig Ziglar

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 read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good.

— Gillian Flynn

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

— Alison Pill

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett

Novels are a safe way to talk about things.

— Jay Asher