Holbrook Jackson Quotes

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them.

I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment.

First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.

When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in the world. Reading 'Moby-Dick' is like being in a time machine. I almost feel as excited as the first time I read it and I always find something new.

You can't write if you don't read.

I love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' are two of my favorite ones.

Like most authors, I also love to read.

I love my job, and I love books. I read anything, including cereal boxes. I care deeply about what people think of my books, and I memorize my reviews. I love to hear from my readers.

I am an avid reader.

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.

I'm actually not that big a fan of reading.

Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time.

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books at once, just in bits and pieces rather than subjecting myself to a really brilliant book and thinking, "Well what's the point of me writing anything?" I'm more likely to read a book through when I take a break from writing.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do. But as a writer, it's both a blessing and a curse. You absorb technique as you go along.

[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Good books are for consideration after, too.