21.   Her father said he wished the books had been around when he was a boy, maybe he would have learned to like reading novels.

22.   He was forever reading detective novels on the set.

23.   I can read a novel in a single night and have forgotten its plot and title by morning.

24.   I even read the novel and marveled at the way the character Lee had been omitted from the film.

25.   I like to play with my kids and read novels.

26.   I like to feel that sort of creative bafflement when I see a film or read a novel.

27.   I read the novel literally on a dark and stormy night.

28.   I read the novel and I admire how they compressed all the characters into the screenplay, while still preserving the bleakness of it.

29.   If you enjoy reading novels when you are not at work, that can be where the story ends.

30.   In combining these elements so successfully, Wiley reminds us why reading novels is so much fun.