Acting Quote by Claire Danes

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

— Claire Danes

I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense…

— A. B. Yehoshua

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel…

— Ann Patchett

It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of…

— Philip Hensher

I do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader.

— Jed Mercurio

Reading is a pleasure, yes, but not without effort: choosing to read novels purely because they mirror your own experience is stultifying.

— Dawn Foster

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

— Sally Rooney

I love fiction and read novels constantly.

— Michael Imperioli

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

— Alison Pill

A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response,…

— August Wilson

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

— Barbara Kingsolver