Holbrook Jackson Quotes

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

I never stopped reading.

Reading has made me more open, has improved my understanding, and has made me a better artiste, but it also makes me live in my own bubble. My mom keeps asking me, 'What do you read in that room the whole day?' Once I am into a book, I will finish it.

I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to enrich your life in so many ways.

I'm always reading something.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

Live always in the best company when you read.

Less smoking and more reading.

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

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

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

I read everything. When I say everything, I read everything: children's literature, Y.A., science fiction, fantasy, romance - I read it all. Each genre fulfills a different need I have. Each book teaches me something.

I tend to read a lot of books and believe in a certain ideology.

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

People really need to take time and read a book. You know? That’s my advice. You could read A New Slant on Life, you could read Dianetics. And I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do, you’ll speculate. And I think that’s a mistake to do that.

I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

I am not a gym person, so I do walk a lot. I find gym is incredibly boring. Other thing I do is to devour books because I feel we need to feed our mind as well.

I speak four languages and read a great deal, so I do as much working out on the brain as I do on the body.