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I'm a voracious reader. -- Howard Schultz
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader. -- Iris Johansen
I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it. -- Owain Yeoman
President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information. -- Pierre Salinger
I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible. -- Amy Grant
While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind. -- Christopher McQuarrie
I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time. -- Amish Tripathi
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality. -- K. A. Applegate
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable. -- George R. R. Martin
I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine. -- Amish Tripathi
By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was firmly in place in Europe. -- Simon Schama
I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges. -- Jewel
Fortunately, I grew up in a traditional family where questioning was encouraged, particularly by my pandit grandfather. We are all voracious readers, seeking knowledge. I learn a lot from discussions with my wife, siblings and parents. -- Amish Tripathi
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits. -- Eric Allin Cornell
When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people. -- Autumn Reeser
Chinese growth will either be strong or very strong. They have a voracious demand for energy that will only continue to grow. What they're doing... is looking at all forms of energy. They're going ahead very strongly with coal, nuclear, oil, natural gas. -- John S. Watson
In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing. -- Christopher Nolan
I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home. -- J. M. Coetzee
I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it? -- Amish Tripathi
I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone. -- Deborah Harkness
I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school. -- John Niven
The death of the MG marks the end of one of the most perfect products of free enterprise, born out of the voracious will to succeed of one man and the burgeoning market for middle-class status symbols. The car first appeared as a souped-up Morris Oxford in 1923 when it won the Land's End Rally. -- Nick Davies
Managers are already voracious consumers of theory. Every time they make a decision or take action, it's based on some theory that leads them to believe that action will lead to the right result. The problem is, most managers aren't aware of the theories they're using, and they often use the wrong theories for the situation. -- Clayton Christensen
Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper. -- Junot Diaz
When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like 'All-American Comics' or 'Star-Spangled Comics' or things like that. I decided to do a logo that was a parody of those comics, with 'American' as the first word. -- Harvey Pekar
I have been a voracious reader for years. -- Jacob Tomsky
I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate. -- Wanda Koop
I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly. -- Jimmy Page
We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks. -- Rob Brezsny
Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets -- Nathaniel Bronner Jr.
I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS. -- Robert T. Bakker
A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers. -- Matt Mullenweg
When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. -- Michael Connelly
Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day. -- Charlie Munger
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. -- Henry Fielding
Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark it was. -- Kate Elliott
If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too. -- Tim Maleeny
I'm a voracious reader - I always have a book on the go and read for at least half an hour, usually more, every night. -- Stephanie Laurens
The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big mouths and voracious appetite of the adolescent. -- Janet Macunovich
Creativity is a voracious animal. It needs to be fed regularly. If you leave it untended for too long, you run the risk of starving your passion and diminishing your spirit. -- Nancy Lam
It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because the is always the thought that everything might be done better and again -- John Green
...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again. -- John Green
The Gauls derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance, equally disgusting to the sight and to the smell. -- Edward Gibbon
I'm not like a voracious hoarder who has 50,000 albums of vinyl stacked in a storage space in the San Fernando Valley. But I do have albums from the last 40 years of my life. -- Dave Grohl
I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish books that fast, because I'm always reading so many things at once. -- Victoria Chang

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