Books Quote by Nina Bawden

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

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

— Henning Mankell

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

— Flannery O'Connor

Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people…

— Edwidge Danticat

Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be.

— Lee Kuan Yew

When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't…

— Peter York

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

— Virginia Woolf

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

Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.

— Adam Ross

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

— Tom Sizemore

I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.

— Philip Hensher

I don't very often read novels.

— Sidney Poitier