Voracious Quotes

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.

I really enjoy tech, but I’m not voracious – I’ll find stuff because I want to use it, not because I’m interested in what’s out there. It’s a sort of necessity relationship.

I am a voracious reader, so it’s difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time.

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.

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.

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

I’m so voracious with books, movies, TV, and I’m always interested in the way that different cultural values are presented or, in their absence, are present.

My whole background was in voracious book-reading.

I’m a voracious reader, I’m always studying.

I consume a lot of podcasts. I’m a voracious podcast consumer.

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?

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.

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.

One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

I’m a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I’m addicted to.

I got Cs in English at school. I hated it. But now I want to be a writer and I’m voracious for new vocabulary and new ideas.

Although I am a voracious plant predator, one has to realize that there is not a human need for fruits and vegetables: just ask an Eskimo.

I have been a voracious reader.

I’m a voracious reader. I want information, all kinds – Internet, books, magazines.

I don’t want to put up this act of being a voracious reader, which I am not.

I’ve always been a voracious reader.

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.

No diet but plan weight-watching works for me. I’m a voracious eater, that’s all.

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. I was not interested in reading ‘The Glass Key’ or ‘The Maltese Falcon’ – stuff that was 40 or 50 years old.

I’m a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

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.

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.

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.