Austen Quote by Julian Barnes

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

— Anna Quindlen

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is…

— Vladimir Nabokov

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great…

— Yann Martel

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

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

— Jeanne Henry

The virtue of books is to be readable.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles,…

— Robert Aris Willmott

I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good.

— Gillian Flynn

Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I read a lot when I was at college, but really, only a few of Dickens's books work for me.

— Sue Perkins

I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them. Clearly you…

— Darren Boyd