Did Any Canonized Saint Enjoy Reading Fictional Novels As A Hobby?

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Considering there are thousands of saints, I’d guess…

Yes. At least one.

I remember Augustine mentioning in his* Confessions* something about reading. He hated Greek novels, but loved Latin- his native tongue. Later in his life he actually regretted reading the novels he read in his youth, but that was because they were based on paganism. There are definitely good enlightening books today. Lewis and Tolkien are some good authors, for example.
 
He’s not canonized – yet (but God willing, soon now that the kerfluffle over his relics has been sorted out) but Venerable Fulton Sheen often quoted from The Brothers Karamazov on his show.

Saint John Paul II actually wrote a play in his youth.

Saint Ignatius Loyola’s love of war stories actually figured in his conversion. When he was recuperating from some surgery to repair an injured leg, he wanted to read his usual diet of stories of martial derring-do. However, the relative he was staying with had only the Bible and the lives of the saints. He began reading those voraciously and converted.
 
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Saint John Paul II actually wrote a play in his youth.
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Another canonized playwright is St. Edmund Campion. He was an English martyr, a Catholic apologist, a contemporary of Shakespeare, and the author of Ambrosia (which may have influenced Shakespeare’s Macbeth). There’s an excellent plot summary of Ambrosia (with quotations) here.
 
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