Book Quote by Jonathan Franzen

You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious…

— Pearl S. Buck

“A few minutes later she was concentrating on her novel, which was half-finished. The theme of this book was a suicide. The death of…

— Doris Lessing

For me, what I am making in the novel is a place to live. When I first switched from poetry to novels, I was…

— Nicole Krauss

You're either reading a book or you're not.

— Jonathan Franzen

“Never throw away squeezed lemon, but keep them for the day by the sink. Then you can use them to remove fish, onion or…

— Jennifer Paterson

I remember reading a book that was on songwriting at some point that I found in my dad's store, and just... I did not…

— Larkin Grimm

There's a lot of lies out there that we should catch and that have taken me a lot of time to sort of see,…

— Karla Souza

She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like…

— Henry Miller

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in…

— Quentin Crisp

“reading a book, or remembering something I heard on the radio last week, or admiring the flowers on the table, I am doing”

— Geoffrey Durham

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

— Angela Carter

I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a person and…

— Daniel Olivas

“Statistically, if you're reading this sentence, you're an oddball. The average American spends three minutes a day reading a book. At this moment, you…

— Dick Meyer

I liked climbing trees and could often be found up one reading a book. I played games with Dad and drew maps for him…

— Rhianna Pratchett