Books Quote by Patrick O'Brian

“I read novels with the utmost pertinaity. I look upon them - I look upon good novels - as a very valuable part of…

— Patrick O'Brian

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

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of…

— Carolyn See

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

— Sandra Cisneros

“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what…

— Susan Sontag

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part…

— René Descartes

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

— Alison Pill

“That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels; you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to see others…

— John Green

“To me reading is an almost sacred activity and the great novel is its high mass. The novel is so deeply powerful as an…

— Gregory Day

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired…

— Donald Hall

“Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.”

— Anthony Powell