--- title: "8 Gift Passion Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 8 Gift Passion quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Gift Passion sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1f/simon-cheshire-47996_art-form_on-my-website-there-s-a-quote-from-the-w_153530.jpg" --- > [“On my website there's a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: "The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-cheshire/on-my-website-there-s-a-quote-from-the-writer-anthony-burgess-the/) [Simon Cheshire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-cheshire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1f/simon-cheshire-47996_art-form_on-my-website-there-s-a-quote-from-the-w_153530.jpg) > [The greatest gift is a passion for reading.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/the-greatest-gift-is-a-passion-for-reading/) [Elizabeth Hardwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hardwick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ba/elizabeth-hardwick-10519_book_the-greatest-gift-is-a-passion-for-readi_484999.png) > [We all have a gift; we all have a passion - it's just about finding it and going into it. Being an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-bassett/we-all-have-a-gift-we-all-have-a-passion-it-s-just-about-finding-it/) [Angela Bassett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-bassett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d97/angela-bassett-13227_being_we-all-have-a-gift-we-all-have-a-passion_585529.jpg) > [“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/the-greatest-gift-is-a-passion-for-reading-it-is-cheap-it-consoles-it/) [Elizabeth Hardwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hardwick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ac/elizabeth-hardwick-10519_gift_the-greatest-gift-is-a-passion-for-readi_659849.png) > [“God gave you the gift of passion so that you and your husband can experience intimate oneness. He also gave it to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-dillow/god-gave-you-the-gift-of-passion-so-that-you-and-your-husband-can/) [Linda Dillow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-dillow/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cf/linda-dillow-24138_marriage_god-gave-you-the-gift-of-passion-so-that_925704.jpg) > [“Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cara-swann/life-can-t-ever-really-defeat-a-writer-who-is-in-love-with-writing-2/) [Cara Swann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cara-swann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a35/cara-swann-147932_life_life-can-t-ever-really-defeat-a-writer-w_1986243.jpg) > [The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/the-greatest-gift-is-the-passion-for-reading-it-is-cheap-it-consoles/) [Elizabeth Hardwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hardwick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f10/elizabeth-hardwick-10519_experience_the-greatest-gift-is-the-passion-for-rea_2274622.png) > [“Love is a gift. Passion is a curse”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alyson-noel/love-is-a-gift-passion-is-a-curse/) [Alyson Noel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alyson-noel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c5/alyson-noel-1434_curse_love-is-a-gift-passion-is-a-curse-322349_3223497.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gift-passion/#itemlist", "name": "Gift Passion Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“On my website there's a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: \"The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.\" I've always found that inspiring because the written word, as an art form, is unlike any other: movies, TV, music, they're shared experiences, but books aren't like that. 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