Novel Reading Quotes: top 83 famous quotes about Novel Reading

Novel Reading Quotes & Sayings

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Looking at someone else's relationship for the answers was like reading about a romance novel hero and expecting to find a carbon copy in real life — Maya Banks

Happiness is.. reading a novel with your Bestie. — Vikrmn

Get your deprived, samall-town, romance-novel reading mind out of of the gutter, Becky. — Maureen A. Miller

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein. — Henry Ward Beecher

Ideas can come while reading a good novel. — Ben Van Berkel

It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers. — E. Lockhart

A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance. — Phyllis McGinley

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

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. — Thomas Perry

My ideal state as a reader when I'm reading other people is feeling I'm vaguely wasting my time when I'm not reading that novel. — Ian McEwan

As the sweaty, alcohol fuming bodies press in on me from all directions I decide that my ideal of a good time is reading a good novel, alone — Rita Stradling

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. ( ... )
A good novel editor is invisible. — Terri Windling

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it. — Karl Kraus

Every once in a while you come across a novel that reminds you why you think you enjoy reading in the first place. — Graham Parke

[When asked about Writing Conferences]
You meet people that will change your life. — Susan Wingate

My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel. — Maria Semple

The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development. — Dave Mearns

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently. — Manuel Puig

The Airwitch had gone from reading nothing in his life to never stopping, buying every novel or history book he could get his hands on. — Susan Dennard

The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story — Brandt Legg

Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you. — Caterina Scorsone

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life. — E. M. Forster

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different. — Sydney Pollack

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

Reading a great novel gives the same feeling you have when you fall in love. — Luigina Sgarro

Low and behold what comes of reading too many romance novels. — Kellyn Roth

But talking to a ghost about a demon when you're in a room full of people who can't see either of them is not to be recommended. — Kerstin Gier

Time flows like memories on the shores of the past. — Michael Joseph Murano

I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them. — Haruki Murakami

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading. — Gene Luen Yang

A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don't know how it's going to end. Otherwise, there'd be no point in reading ... — Yevgeny Zamyatin

A human being is like a novel: until the last page you don't know how it will end. Or it wouldn't be worth reading. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

I love print fiction, but sometimes when I'm reading a good graphic novel or manga, I find myself envying those who work in an illustrated format. — Jane Lindskold

I love reading novels, and I love going to movies, but I kind of hate going to an adaptation of a novel, and it starts off with a voiceover. — David Benioff

I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings. — Taiye Selasi

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one. — Katherine Center

If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room. — Gabrielle Zevin

I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns. — W.B.Yeats

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. — Dorothy Parker

Sometimes I wonder if novel writers aren't completely f**ked in the head. ~ Drew Stirling — Jayden Hunter

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give. — T. S. Eliot

Reading is fuel for the brain. Writing is fuel for the spirit ... — Megan S. Johnston

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt. — Jane Austen

Good listeners always hear something novel — Ela Crain

You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out. — Christina Westover

I can imagine her memories of the novel, or, more likely, of who she was and how she felt when reading it. — Rabih Alameddine

A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. — Katherine Paterson

One novel has been all my reading, Our Mutual Friend, one of the cleverest that Dickens has written. — Lewis Carroll

Listening to Eric Taylor is better than reading a Larry McMurtry novel and easier on the eyes. — Ralston Bowles

The whole of life did not consist in going to bed with a woman, he thought, returning to Scott and Balzac, to the English novel and the French novel. — Virginia Woolf

She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel. — Kate Atkinson

The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel. — Edwin Muir

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair — Stephen King

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author. — Johnny Rich

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel. — Vonda N. McIntyre

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination. — Alice Hoffman

There is something of the ghoul in the page-swallower and of the novel-reader in the stroller through cemeteries. — Regis Debray

Reading a novel was like returning to a once-beloved holiday destination. — Liane Moriarty

The day women stop reading - that's the day the novel dies! — John Irving

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing. — Daniel Craig

Own company, reading a classic British novel, curled — E.L. James

It's very silly," she said, "but I go on with it in spite of myself. I'm afraid I'm too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I can't read it. — Henry James

Reading is a bridge from misery to hope. — Rebecca VanDeMark

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. — Lord Chesterfield

To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can't really multitask reading a book. — Jonathan Franzen

Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line. — Claire Fuller

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader. — W.J. Raymond

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel. — Jane Smiley

When I want to read a novel, I write one. — Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing was worse than reading too late and falling asleep two or three pages into a novel. — Ted Dekker

My next novel will be the third volume in the John Dies at the End series, and in fact may already exist, again depending on when you're reading this. — David Wong

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead. — Ian McEwan

If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac. — Tiffany Madison

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them. — Henry David Thoreau

Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly. — Johnny Rich

No one will ever write a horror novel as scary as reading about my symptoms on WebMD. — John Raptor

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do. — Margaret Oliphant

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down. — Agnes Repplier

Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. — Italo Calvino