Absolutely Quote by Richard Powers

Curiosity is the prime requisite of the novelist.

— Lucy Poate Stebbins

A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great transformation in…

— James Gleick

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

— Gillian Cross

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

— James Harvey Robinson

I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about…

— Nicholas G. Carr

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

— Blaise Pascal

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

— James Thayer

Curiosity is vital to the growth of our society.

— Janet Mock

Curiosity is the greatest source of ideas, retail revolutions, and insights.

— Michael J. Silverstein

“Why do you think I'm reading this? But you know—though maybe you have different standards for what constitutes 'interesting' than I do—there's no such…

— Natsuhiko Kyogoku