Reading Novels Quotes

• La persona, sea caballero o dama, que no sienta placer por una buena novela, debe ser intolerablemente estúpida.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirador, Divertido, Estúpido

  Jane Austen (2005). "Jane Austen: 8 Libros en 1", p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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  Nunca entiendes realmente a una persona hasta que consideras las cosas desde su punto de vista.

  Harper Lee

  Potente, Positividad, Sol

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). "Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird" (Matar a un ruiseñor), p.81, Infobase Publishing

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• What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

  J. D. Salinger

  Libro, Lectura, Memorable

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 3

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• When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

  Alejandro Zambra

  Reading, Long, Novel

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• La ficción nos permite ver el mundo desde el punto de vista de otra persona, y hay bastantes estudios neurológicos que demuestran que leer novelas es bueno para la salud. Te integra en la sociedad y te hace pensar en los demás. La gente es ciertamente mejor en todo tipo de cosas si puede retener una novela en su cabeza. Es toda una habilidad, pero si no puedes hacerlo te estás perdiendo algo en la vida. Creo que, cuando conoces a alguien, te das cuenta de si lee novelas o no. Si no lo hacen, hay algo de vacío.

  Philip Hensher

  Leer, Pensar, Puntos de vista

  "Philip Hensher: una vida escrita", por Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. 30 de marzo de 2012.

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• the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Reading, Novel

  Elizabeth Bowen (2012). “The Hotel: A Novel”, p.110, University of Chicago Press

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• I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

  Claire Danes

  Reading, Behavior, Insight

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• 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.

  Peter York

  Running, Real, Reading

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• 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.

  T.C. Boyle

  Attitude, Reading, Writing

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

  Alison Pill

  Reading, Mind, Novel

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.

  Ian Mcewan

  Reading, Humanity, Deny

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• He aprendido tanto a escribir sobre mi pueblo escuchando blues, jazz y espirituales como leyendo novelas. Las sutilezas del saxo tenor de Lester Young, los sonidos cristalinos, inquietantes y siempre en busca de John Coltrane, la suavidad y la violencia de la big band de Count Basie... todo ello ha disparado mi imaginación tanto como cualquier otra cosa de la literatura.

  Ernest Gaines

  Lectura, escritura, imaginación

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• 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.

  Daniel Alarcón

  Latin, Book, Reading

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Reading, Impact, Stories

  "Dana Spiotta on living the creative life". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. August 3, 2011.

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• Nunca pude leer a Foucault. La filosofía me parece tediosa. Todos mis conocimientos proceden de la lectura de novelas y algo de historia. Leí El ser y la nada y me di cuenta de que no recordaba absolutamente nada cuando lo terminé. Solía ir todos los días a la biblioteca y leer durante ocho horas diarias. Había abandonado el instituto y tuve que autodidactas. Leí a Sartre sin ninguna base. Me forcé y no aprendí nada.

  Michael Gira

  Philosophy, Reading, School

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• Iba con mis padres y me encantaba, participaba en obras del colegio y empecé a leer obras de teatro antes que novelas. Lo defiendo a capa y espada. Cuando el teatro es bueno es fabuloso.

  Patrick Marber

  Lectura, Escuela, Juego

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• 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

  Lectura, escritura, personas

  Ernest J. Gaines (2007). “Mozart and Leadbelly”, p.27, Vintage

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• 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

  Reading, Heart, Godly

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• Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, 'The sign that one has acquired one's learning from reading novels rather than an education.

  Kate Atkinson

  Reading, Novel

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• Evidentemente, este enfoque no excluye otras formas de intentar comprender el mundo. Alguien comprometido con él (como yo) puede creer sistemáticamente (como hago yo) que aprendemos mucho más de interés humano sobre cómo piensa, siente y actúa la gente leyendo novelas o estudiando historia que de toda la psicología naturalista, y quizá siempre lo hagamos; del mismo modo, las artes pueden ofrecer una apreciación de los cielos a la que la astrofísica no puede aspirar.

  Noam Chomsky

  Appreciation, Art, Reading

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• My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life - I didn’t. I loved reading novels to distraction, but didn’t write well enough to be a novelist; being an editor or a critic was out, too, since my tastes ran to the extremes. Novels should be for pure personal enjoyment, I decided, not part of your work or study. That’s why I didn’t study literature

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Book, Reading

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• I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

  Julia Quinn

  Lying, Reading, Imagine

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• 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

  Reading, Thinking, Empathy

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