Voracious Reader Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

Owain Yeoman

#4. I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the kind of Baron Munchausen proxy of a tall tale was much more interesting than a true tale.

Damon Lindelof

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. She'd been an actress, an artist's model, once or twice a kept woman, through all a voracious reader.

Glen Duncan

#10. I have been a voracious reader for years.

Jacob Tomsky

#11. That's just where I must part company with you, Inspector," said the Vicar with a gentle smile. "I'm rather a voracious reader of mystery stories, and it's always struck me that the detective in fiction is inclined to underrate the value of intuition.

John Bude

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.

Michael Connelly

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

Amish Tripathi

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

Pierre Salinger

#17. I was a voracious reader, but part of what that taught me was that I was nowhere near as scholarly as I wanted to be. I was precocious, but how many years beyond your teens can you be called that with sincerity?

Carrie Fisher

#18. INTERVIEWER
Have you ever been envious of another writer?
WODEHOUSE
No, never. I'm really such a voracious reader that I'm only too grateful to get some stuff I can read.

P.G. Wodehouse

#19. This was the curse of the voracious reader, she realized. Real life never quite measured up to the heightened and precise contours of her literary worlds. A real war was never as true as a fictive one.

Reif Larsen

#20. I have never met a mentally strong person who wasn't a voracious reader.

James Altucher

#21. 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

#22. I'm a voracious reader.

Howard Schultz

#23. 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

#24. I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

Iris Johansen

#25. But lulled into such an opium-like listlessness of vacant, unconscious reverie is this absent-minded youth by the blending cadence of waves with thoughts, that at last he loses his identity;

Herman Melville

#26. I thought I loved Daren, and I did in a butterfly-and-hearts kind of way, but it was nothing like this. This is an asteroid shower on a summer night. A tidal wave crashing onto the breakers. Falling over the edge of Niagara Falls in an inner tube. Because I have fallen, irreparably for Gavin Murphy

Lex Martin

#27. Tell me why I shouldn't shoot you," Stefano murmured. Low, intimate, just between them.
"Fun ... would be over too fast?

Aleksandr Voinov

#28. I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.

Florence Welch

#29. I know girls want what they can't have, and they want to be the special exception responsible for taming the boy no one else can, even though they probably won't be.

Gena Showalter

#30. He answered my plea with a roar and our chests met hard as we came undone together. Came so perfectly undone together.

Lucian Bane

#31. I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.

Deborah Kerr

#32. I do MMA and things like that, so any chance I get to do my own stunts, I love it.

Justin Lee