Art Quote by Richard Haynes

There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting…

— Van Morrison

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

— Alison Pill

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.

— Jane Gardam

I say, don't read the classics - try to discover your own classics; every life has its own.

— Rudolf Flesch

“(Tania Unsworth) writes of a time when she was a “girl of eleven, with a flashlight under the covers, devouring The Chronicles of Narnia”—when…

— Tania Unsworth

I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner.…

— Karen Russell

“I recommend readers to be adventurous and to try things they’ve never heard of or considered reading before. Get out of the comfort zone…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

— William Styron

In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've…

— E. B. White

I had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You would cross…

— Helen Bevington

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

— William Styron

“Melville's example demonstrates the wisdom of waiting to read the classics. Coming to a great book on your own after having accumulated essential life…

— Nathaniel Philbrick