It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.
After college, I spent a decade working the kinds of jobs that I write about - bartender, shoe salesman, kitchen man - while voraciously reading novels.
Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.
the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon
I never even had the time to read novels.
To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.
I'm always reading a novel. If it's good, I remember why I love my job.
I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.
Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.
One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.
I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.
If you're reading a novel that was written in 1964, you'll find out more about 1964 than if you're reading a nonfiction book written in 1964 because you're hearing how language was actually used and hearing what people's actual concerns were at the beginning of the 1960s.
Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.
I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.
I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from.
To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.
Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.
