Reading Desire Quotes

Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.

The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can partake of real life only by changing it.

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.

I would have loved to have another 10 Eric Ambler books.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I only want power so I can get books.

But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read!

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf.

I get a little stressed even sometimes knowing all the things I want to read, I won't have enough time in this lifetime. The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

Itch to read, scratch to understand.

I guess there are never enough books.

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me.

Reading is sexy!

To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

Let my temptation be a book.

You are at some point exposed to a wonderful story, and you really want to know what happens next, so you learn to read in order to find out.

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'