Appetite Quote by Francis Spufford

For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to…

— Paul Auster

“Why do you think people stopped reading? We read to connect with other minds. But why read when you're busy writing, describing the fine-grained…

— Alena Graedon

It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about…

— Lynn Coady

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

— Simone Weil

For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.

— Charlotte Bronte

Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of a sudden…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

“A reading appetite is quirky, singular, and essential”

— Penny Kittle

Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.

— Francine Prose

"It’s not as if I don’t have anything to read; there’s a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to…

— Lewis Buzbee

I used to love reading when I was little, and then it became difficult and I didn't understand why. I thought, what a bummer,…

— Jewel

God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been…

— Dorothy Parker