Looking Quote by Erik Larson

For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more than all…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I have been a voracious reader for years.

— Jacob Tomsky

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles,…

— Robert Aris Willmott

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…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The experience of reading is very interesting because you put yourself in the character's shoes and everything they're discovering, you marry the experience.

— Ashley Zukerman

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

— Nic Pizzolatto

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

— John Malkovich

I learned to read at a young age and I have always read voraciously. It is one of the few things, aside from getting…

— James Frey

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Novels begin and end with, consist of, and indeed in one sense are nothing but voices. So reading is learning to listen sensitively, and…

— Ian Gregor

As a reader, I read quite widely.

— Ruth Ware