Books Quote by Philip Roth

If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

— Philip Roth

I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six…

— Barry McGee

I read continually and don't understand writers who say they don't read while working on a book. For a start, a book takes me…

— Paul Lynch

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

It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels…

— Graham Swift

I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to…

— Matthew Healy

“It’s tempting to see books the way we see gadgets: that we need the very latest, most up-to-date version. But just because a novel…

— Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin

There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read,…

— Umberto Eco

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

— Tom Sizemore

“..."(Years of work are required before the cerebral mechanisms for reading, if regularly oiled, finally become unconscious.-Stanislas Dehaene.) The important thing is not so…

— Jacques Bonnet

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

— Richard Ford

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years…

— Diana Gabaldon