Holbrook Jackson Quotes

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes

I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me. I believe in choosing books based on the dust jacket.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

I don't think you should limit what you read.

I think sometimes parents and teachers can push children away from reading by telling them it's something they must do, the same way they must eat their greens and must pass their exams in school. Poppycock! Read or don't read - that's your call.

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.

Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.

I don't think I ever consciously separated 'school' books from any others; I just read anything that came across my path.

Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Here's the thing: If you don't want your kids to read a book, fine. You can tell them not to read a book, and maybe they will and maybe they won't. But you can't say what other kids can read.

I have books I like very much, but I don't think there are any books that everyone should read. I prefer a world in which some people read this, and others read that.

I'm not someone who has a list of great books I would read if I only had the time. If I want to read a particular so-called classic, I go ahead and read it. If I had more time, I would certainly read more, but I'd read the way I always do - that is, I'd read whatever happened to interest me, not necessarily classics.

Readers have always read high and low, and to fight that urge is to fight the freedom inherent in the act of reading itself. The only arguments that have any traction, as best as I can see it, are about whether the genre classification of 'young adult' should exist at all.

I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping.

But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.