Books Quote by Karl Kraus

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Reading is a pleasure, yes, but not without effort: choosing to read novels purely because they mirror your own experience is stultifying.

— Dawn Foster

With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens to people,…

— Dave Barry

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters, into the…

— Anne Rice

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

— Claire Danes

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel…

— Ann Patchett

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue…

— Haruki Murakami

I won't read novels while writing novels.

— Wally Lamb

Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

— Justin Halpern

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if…

— Charles Palliser