“I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.” WayLittlesKidsReaderCuriousEccentricTalkersOutgoing Author:Michael J. Fox
“I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.” BookReaderAppreciateCuriousSincereJudgedInsincere Book:Healology Source: Healology
“Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and other curious nooks and crannies of ancient worlds and modern times.” WorldNumbersModernStrangeReaderAncientMathGuidesCuriousRealmsFascinatingGeometryMysticLivelyProvocativeModern TimesAncient World Author:Ivars Peterson
“Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.” LooksDreamMinesPoetReaderCurious Author:W. H. Auden
“My writing model is my mother, who is a writer as well. She always valued clarity and simplicity above all else. If someone doesn't understand what you're writing, then everything else you do is superfluous. Irrelevant. If any thoughtful, curious reader finds what I do impenetrable, I've failed.” IfsWritingWellsMotherReaderModelsSimplicityClarityCuriousThoughtfulIrrelevantSuperfluous Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“The best critics leave the reader curious to pursue something further, but still to let the reader have his or her own honest, unique opinion.” StillsOpinionHonestReaderUniqueCriticsPursueCurious Author:Michael Hersch
“While THE NEW COOL takes the reader inside a season, limns a team and coaching staff, and masterfully recounts a gripping competition, this is anything but your conventional sports book. And not simply because the 'big game' is...a curious robotics contest. Like the kids he vividly captures, Neal Bascomb has himself performed a masterful bit of engineering here.” BookBigsKidsGamesBitsSportsTeamReaderSeasonsCompetitionCuriousCoachingCaptureEngineeringConventionalStaffContestsRoboticsGrippingCoaching Staff Author:L. Jon Wertheim
“Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted readers to feel like they were sitting around the dinner table with me and my friends, hearing what average people really say and really think, [where] the dinner table is the best place to find out.” PeopleThinkingFeelsWantedMiddleReaderSittingMy FriendsTablesEverydayAverageHearingDinnerEastCuriousMiddle EastEveryday LifeTextureSitting AroundBest PlaceDinner Table Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.” StoriesReadingLiteratureCasesNovelReaderLuckyCuriousOpen Minded Author:Amos Oz
“So people that read the New York Times are not gonna have the slightest idea what really happened here. So not only are the Drive-Bys themselves a little dense and not curious and uninformed, so are all of their viewers and readers.” PeopleLittlesIdeasHappenedNew YorkReaderCuriousViewersNew York TimesDenseUninformed Author:Rush Limbaugh
“All storytelling is kind of that - there's a bit of text that you put pressure on that spits out some desire that a character has and then you follow that. The other part is that every scene raises an expectation in the reader's mind - that's part of its job is to make you look in and be curious.” MindLooksKindCharacterJobsDesireBitsReaderSceneExpectationsPressureRaisesStorytellingCuriousSpit Author:George Saunders
“The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about what will happen to the hero.” HappensNovelReaderHeroCuriousSuspenseNovelistsSuspense Novels Author:Mary McCarthy