“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.” StoriesReadingNovelImpactNarrativeReading Novels Author:Dana Spiotta
“When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels.” KnowsFeelsBookRealEnoughRunningReadingCompanyNovelHavensNovelistsReal ThingsReading Novels Author:Peter York
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” InspirationalPersonsBookHumorFunnyReadingPleasureNovelStupidGentlemanClassicEpicJaneRomance NovelBooks And ReadingPleasure Of ReadingReading NovelsReading For PleasureBest Novel Book:Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1 Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
“I can't be reading novels when I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. The hardest thing to do is keep the tone and your attitude over the course of a year or however long it takes.But when I'm writing short stories, which I will be doing shortly, I can read anything I like.” WritingYearsLongI CanStoriesCoursesReadingVoiceAttitudeNovelHardestThings To DoToneShort StoryHardest ThingCreepsI Can ReadHardest Thing To DoWriting ShortWriting Short StoriesReading Novels Author:T.C. Boyle
“To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.” MindReadingNovelActiveActive MindsReading Novels Author:Alison Pill
“Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.” HumanityReadingNovelDenyRichnessReading Novels Author:Ian Mcewan
“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.” PeopleWritingBigsYoungReadingLiteratureSoundImaginationNovelForeverViolenceListeningBandJazzI Have LearnedMy ImaginationHauntingCrystalsSoftnessSaxophoneTenorsUnderstatementColtraneReading NovelsLester Young Author:Ernest Gaines
“Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be able to reach people who might not ever pick up one of my books, either because they can't afford it (as is often the case in Latin America), or because they just don't have the habit of reading novels.” PeopleBookMightAbleAmericaReadingCasesNovelHabitPicksExcitingRadioMediumsNovelistsLatinLatin AmericaReading Novels Author:Daniel Alarcon
“When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.” KnowsLongReadingNovelLong TimeReading Novels Author:Alejandro Zambra