Quotes About Passion

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.

I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I've always been a big reader.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

I am an avid reader.

One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if I'm honest with myself, it's practically the only activity that I truly love to do.

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong, sensual romance, it is like a one-two punch. The reader doesn't want the history without the romance, and of course the heavier the history, the more it has to be leavened with a sensual, all-consuming love story.

Write about what you care about. If you do that, you're probably going to do your best writing, reach off the page and touch the reader. How are you going to make the reader care if you don't care yourself?

I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important thing. I think if you write what you care about, you stand a better chance of having the reader care about your story.

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I could find. Formal chemistry at school seemed boring by comparison, and my performance was routine. In contrast, I did spectacularly well in mathematics and sailed through classes and exams with ease.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.