Voracious Quotations

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 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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

He's a voracious consumer of information, and he's open to ideas. It's ultimately about him being right in the end, not just about him being right.

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.

While voracious consumer spending has helped maintain overall economic strength, companies are still hampered by stiff pricing competition from abroad, ... The inability to raise prices has cut into corporate profits, which, in turn, has most certainly contributed to increased job cutting.

Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were young! You listen to some adults saying they were going around reading 'Ulysses' when they were seven or eight! I think children are voracious readers if you give them the right books and if you make those books accessible to them.

People are witnessing how interested consumers are in experiencing digital music, consuming it that way, and having the convenience of consuming it that way. It's a quickly growing, voracious audience.

That one city is absolutely incredible in terms of the voracious nature of their appetite for anything associated with the Steelers in general and Ben specifically. There is a love affair going on with Ben and that city. He has a blue-collar work ethic with a touch of charisma.

There's a voracious appetite for capital at all levels in the Chinese market. It's a huge market.

The voracious demand for space demand continues to make Midtown the place to be.

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.

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.

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.

Caroline is a voracious reader. She loves to read. If I was going to make a movie, I'd ask Caroline to read it first.