Reading Novels Quotes

Reading Novels Quote of the day

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

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

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.

There is much to discover that's not on the back cover!

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

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

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon

Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.

Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, 'The sign that one has acquired one's learning from reading novels rather than an education.

Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read, ’ and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short stories under the head of novels.

...Every life contains a novel.

When I read a novel my imagination starts off at a gallop and leaves the narrator hidden in a cloud of dust I have to come jogging twenty miles back to the denouement.

And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages and mischievously leave the novel tingling in our ears.

We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures.

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.

The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.