Appetite Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft

“Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination.”

— Richard Louv

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“reading expands the mind and the imagination!!!”

— Lori

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

— Lydia Davis

“Writing keeps the mind sharp and gives me the opportunity to exercise my imagination to engage the reader,”

— Ruth Ford Elward

“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A writer's mind can never be empty.”

— Michael Acciarino

“To think without a proper amount of good reading is to limit our thinking to our own tiny plot of ground.”

— A.W. Tozer

“Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this…

— Italo Calvino

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

— Penny Kittle

I read, I think, I play, I work. And all that thinkingand playing and reading comes into my art. I couldn't really sithere and…

— Harvey Keitel