Literary Excitement Quotes

I remember reading 'The Guest' and thinking, 'This is going to be something!'

I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books because there was an excitement after the war that translated into poetry.

When I read 'Absalom, Absalom!,' I remember being really excited about it and telling all my friends they had to read it, especially my writer friends.

But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a new major play by Shakespeare.

I go into a book store and start having heart palpitations. I get very excited.

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.

If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different friends in each one. To this day, I relish the feeling of cracking a binding for the first time, the anticipation of where I'll go and whom I'll meet inside.