Anything Quote by Jenny Zhang

People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks…

— Flannery O'Connor

“I read all kinds of novels, as long as they’re good. I get a bit piqued when people say, 'I don’t really like that…

— Gillian Flynn

Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular…

— Echo Bodine

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

— Flannery O'Connor

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

— Jonathan Lethem

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading…

— Wilkie Collins

You need a lot of energy to get a novel finished. You need an ability to ignore everyone around you. It's why I don't…

— Maggie O'Farrell

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things,…

— Ned Vizzini

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary…

— Mark Kurlansky

Listening to people discussing a novel can be very interesting, if you've read whatever novel is being discussed. No one, it seems, ever says,…

— Zia Haider Rahman

One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.

— Dana Perino

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