Henry Rollins Quotes

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

I'm quite intellectual. I read a lot and I'm very politically aware.

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.

I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

I'm big on research. I love research, so I tend to do a lot of reading.

Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

Cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them.

When you have no idea what to do or how to do it, you just need to see and absorb as much as you possibly can and just fill your vocabulary and your brain with as much as humanly possible.

In terms of preparation, if there's some historical context that's needed, I do like to read a lot. Working on Joe Kennedy for 'Boardwalk,' I read a couple of biographies on him. It's nice to have a broader context of the man outside of where the show is coming from.

There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know that I'm learning something that I didn't know before. That's the glory of writing. It's not even so much the writing, it's what you learn - especially history - because so much of it is research.

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

A library implies an act of faith.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.