Quotes About Curiosity

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

Rather big part of my time is to read scientific journals and to discover what others are doing.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

Will the reader turn the page?

I was a reader as a child, believe it or not.

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

I was a precocious reader.

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

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

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 hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.

One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That's the most you can hope for: that you've raised questions that will be there for the audience to think about later.

I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader.

I think it's good not to make demands on the reader too early. But as the poem goes on, I want the journey of the poem to lead into some interesting places.

I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.

The first paragraph of my book must get me my reader. The last paragraph of a chapter must compel my reader to turn the page. The last paragraph of my book must ensure that my reader looks out for my next book.

I believe the most important thing you can do in any kind of novel is to make your reader want to go on with it and want to know what happens next.

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.

An ideal reader is someone who doesn't know what on Earth you've been doing, who will look at it with absolute freshness and go, 'Oh, so that's what you've been up to.'