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I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. -- Claire Danes
I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
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. -- Patrick Marber
the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon -- Elizabeth Bowen
To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good. -- Alison Pill
When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time. -- Alejandro Zambra
Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts. -- Ian Mcewan
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels. -- Ernest Gaines
Sylvieâ??s knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, â??The sign that one has acquired oneâ??s learning from reading novels rather than an educationâ?¦ -- Kate Atkinson
I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways. -- Cynthia Kenyon
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. -- Dana Spiotta
People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be. -- Alice Oswald
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting. -- Claire Danes
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature. -- Ernest Gaines
If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now! -- Keith Green
Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel. -- Jane Smiley
My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel. -- Maria Semple
One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading. -- Lauren Conrad
Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different. -- Sydney Pollack
I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine. -- Alison Weir
Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can. -- Richard Hughes
I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers. -- Bruno Tonioli
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently. -- Manuel Puig
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy. -- Daniel Silva
When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing. -- Daniel Craig
I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels. -- John Cale
The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading. -- Leslie Fiedler
To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me. -- Jessica Marais
I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. -- Tom Lehrer
I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against. -- Simon Armitage
Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever. -- Jon Scieszka
I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do. -- Mary Pope Osborne
It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind. -- David Mitchell
A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels. -- Sir Harry Lauder
I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from. -- Laura Vandervoort
Maybe she should stop reading those damn romance novels. They were giving her crazy expectations. -- Lexi Blake
Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. -- Richard Wright
My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels... -- Dav Pilkey
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels. -- Jennifer Echols
I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels." -- John Cale
I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side. -- Gene Luen Yang
I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain. -- Kevin Wilson
To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me. -- Jessica Marais
My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up. -- Irena A. Hoffman
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
This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are. -- John Green
I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels. -- Maj Sjowall
I was supposed to be cleaning out the barn, but I was usually reading romance novels. That's how you grow up to be a thriller writer. -- Chevy Stevens
All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about. -- Aurora Rose Reynolds
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang. -- Ambrose Bierce
Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words. -- Peter Schjeldahl
I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure. -- Natasha Trethewey

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