Books Quote by Chloe Grace Moretz

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

— Alejandro Zambra

In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.

— Will Hobbs

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

Reading something for the first time and getting this feeling like the material provokes you on some level, and doing the movie is really…

— Kristen Stewart

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

— Margaret Oliphant

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

I only read a book if I feel intuitively led to read it.

— Echo Bodine

If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

— Philip Roth

With the first novel, I had to tell myself, 'No one is ever going to read it, so you might as well just write…

— Celeste Ng

As for anticipation, you never know what to expect of a book. They're like kids: you bring them into the world, fret about them,…

— Elizabeth Crook

“Enjoyment of literature is achieved only by reading without expectation but with anticipation.”

— David McDonald

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get…

— Jay McInerney