Literary Curiosity Quotes

A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

My whole background was in voracious book-reading.

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living.

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.

I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for it until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything.

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

I'm always fascinated by why a person becomes a writer.

If the response to 'Suite Francaise' is any indication, there's a great deal of curiosity about Nemirovsky, and the best way to deal with it is to produce another book. So much of her work has been unavailable, and we want to bring as much of it back into print as possible.

We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but we're still left wanting to know more. In my own case, it was 'Great Expectations' and Miss Havisham in particular. Luckily, writers have the option of making up the knowledge that reading doesn't supply.

I'm not immune to the readers' desires. Sometimes they are my own, because I'm a reader, too. The readers' desire to know what really happened and what didn't. To have a glimpse into what's really the author and what isn't. I think we all have that and I wonder about what it means.

The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.