“It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.”
“It is possible to read too many novels. Henry Tileny, Northanger Abbey”
“I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.”
“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...”
“(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.”
“[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.”