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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
Get your deprived, samall-town, romance-novel reading mind out of of the gutter, Becky.
— Maureen A. Miller
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.
— Katherine Center
Nothing was worse than reading too late and falling asleep two or three pages into a novel.
— Ted Dekker
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
— Dorothy Parker
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
— T. S. Eliot
A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.
— Katherine Paterson
In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.
— Gene Luen Yang
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
— Italo Calvino
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
— Charles Stross
Reading is a bridge from misery to hope.
— Rebecca VanDeMark
Own company, reading a classic British novel, curled
— E.L. James
When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
— Daniel Craig
Listening to Eric Taylor is better than reading a Larry McMurtry novel and easier on the eyes.
— Ralston Bowles
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
I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.
— Vonda N. McIntyre
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
If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.
— Tiffany Madison
Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.
— Margaret Oliphant
I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.
— Henry David Thoreau
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
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
— Lord Chesterfield
When I want to read a novel, I write one.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.
— Jane Smiley