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Holbrook Jackson Quotes about Reading

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Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Holbrook Jackson
Book, Reading, Writing

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.

Holbrook Jackson
Art, Reading, Night
Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.232, University of Illinois Press

Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

Holbrook Jackson
Book, Reading, Exercise
Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.315, University of Illinois Press

The newest books are those that never grow old.

Holbrook Jackson
Book, Reading, Grows

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

Holbrook Jackson
Reading, Book, Literacy

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

Holbrook Jackson
Book, Reading, Drunk
Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.178, University of Illinois Press

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