Adjustment Quote by Jane Addams

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

— Jonathan Lethem

Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful…

— Andrew Gross

“Novels expose man to the nuances of life through the thought process of their protagonists to form the foundation for its understanding and thus…

— B.S. Murthy

The point of books is to combat loneliness.

— David Foster Wallace

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

“In fact, ladies and gentlemen, I have never read any good book that was not related intimately to at least a score of other…

— Maurice Francis Egan

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason…

— Terry Goodkind

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

There is nothing like books - of all things sold incomparably the cheapest, of all pleasure the least palling, they take up little room,…

— Samuel Palmer

“As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures…

— Aldous Huxley

“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what…

— Susan Sontag