Books Quote by Virginia Woolf

I won't read novels while writing novels.

— Wally Lamb

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

— David Mitchell

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important…

— Nina Bawden

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

— Haruki Murakami

People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading…

— Karen Traviss

I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.

— Danilo Kis

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

— Richard Harris

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

— Dawn Foster

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

— Anita Brookner

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

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