Books Quote by Gore Vidal

Novels need readers of a certain kind, people who are patient and enjoy immersing themselves in another perspective for uninterrupted stretches of time. Reading…

— Zia Haider Rahman

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.

— Mario

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading…

— Karen Traviss

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is…

— John Green

I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to…

— Matthew Healy

But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing…

— Anonymous

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long for the…

— Robert Hass

I won't read novels while writing novels.

— Wally Lamb

That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less than 'great.'

— Jenny Zhang

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor

More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a different moment.…

— Isabel Allende