Art Quote by Virginia Woolf

I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them. Clearly you…

— Darren Boyd

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count…

— Bennett Cerf

“A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you give it…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significant…

— Don DeLillo

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett

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

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary…

— Mark Kurlansky

“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 requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two…

— Philip Roth

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience.…

— Jonathan Lethem

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

— Zadie Smith