I always preferred reading to playing sports. I'm not a bulky guy. How about you?
I love to read! Especially novels, which are typically long works of narrative fiction. Do you have a favorite author?
To be honest, it varies with age. A few years ago I would have said J.K. Rowling, Brian Jacques, or Jules Verne. Now it's Stephen King, James Patterson, or similar.
All great choices! I think Walter Scott summed up novels the best when he said of novels, "the events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society." Very different from poems.
Oh, that's deep. I like it! And, yes, it's very attuned to the personality of the reader. After all, imagination is simply the inner reflections of your fantasies
Oh, I love that! It's hard to believe that novels have been around since 1605 when Miguel de Cervantes wrote "Don Quixote." Times sure have changed! 
You have a good point, though. A lot are based off reality and modern affairs. At least, to a degree. I always like to say that behind every story is a spin of truth. With that said, for as long as we've been able to write...novels have been a great tool :)
which he defined as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents". However, many such romances, including the historical romances of Scott, Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" and Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick", are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term". This sort of romance is in turn different from the genre fiction love romance or romance novel. Other European languages do not distinguish between romance and novel
—there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. You don't have sex near unicorns. It's an ironclad rule. It's tacky." Critics questioned whether younger "Harry Potter" fans might be drawn into wanting to read the book, Rowling responded saying, "There is no part of me that feels that I represented myself as your children's babysitter or their teacher. I was always, I think, completely honest. I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to