Philip Hensher quotes
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“I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.”
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“It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading novels is actually good for you. It embeds you in society and makes you think about other people. People are certainly better at all sorts of things if they can hold a novel in their heads. It is quite a skill, but if you can't do it then you're missing out on something in life. I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.”
-- Philip HensherSource : "Philip Hensher: a life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.
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“The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make up this short novel don't play to Roth's strengths. (...) The Humbling disappoints because it avoids these universal implications, and veers off into a baroque world of the unique and fantastic, never quite deigning to make its world concrete or to give its characters the honour of an independent will.”
-- Philip Hensher -
“Fiction allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading novels is actually good for you. It embeds you in society and makes you think about other people. People are certainly better at all sorts of things if they can hold a novel in their heads. It is quite a skill, but if you can't do it then you're missing out on something in life. I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.”
-- Philip HensherSource : "Philip Hensher: a life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.
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Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007
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“Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.”
Source : Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.96, Abrams
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“I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows”
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