Top 64 Quotes About Rereading
#1. Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.
Stephen Vizinczey
#2. Since I could only take six books per visit from the library, I had to time it right, or I'd be stuck on Sundays rereading the five Reader's Digest Condensed Books sitting on our red laquered living room shelf.
Randy Susan Meyers
#3. Since I've been rereading this book I'm anchored at point zero, considering a thousand strategies and points of view which soon dissolve, abstraction, abstraction, the gaze melts.
Nicole Brossard
#4. I'm used to rereading e-mails, even, before sending them - a bit compulsive. So this is high speed roller coaster for me!
Lydia Davis
#5. Darwin was constantly rereading his notes, discovering new implications.
Steven Johnson
#7. Sophie's mother's voice trilled from the hallway, "William and Sophie Claire, won't you please come join us in the drawing room?" "You have a drawing room?" Will asked. "She's probably been rereading Jane Austen and decided to rename the living room.
Lauren Layne
#8. Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that I can descry lie others, so that rereading holds out the prospect of new subtleties, inversions, secret codes and ineffabilities
William T. Vollmann
#9. There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.
Cynthia Ozick
#10. Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.
Chris Baty
#11. No reader can fail to agree that the number of books she needs to read far exceeds her capacities, but when the passion for rereading kicks in, the faint guilt that therefore attends the indulgence only serves to intensify its sweetness.
Patricia Meyer Spacks
#12. I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.
Jeanette Winterson
#13. A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it was that I loved about them. Rereading 'The Secret Garden,' I felt a lot like Mary feels when she visits her garden.
Ellen Potter
#14. And yet rereading a book can often be a more significant, dramatic, and, yes, new experience than encountering an unfamiliar work.
Alan Jacobs
#15. Combat worry, such as keeping a prayer journal and rereading it when I'm under attack.
Lynn Austin
#16. That's why I read, as a stranger,
My being as if it were pages.
Not knowing what will come
And forgetting what has passed,
I note in the margin of my reading
What I thought I felt.
Rereading, I wonder: "Was that me?"
God knows, because he wrote it.
Fernando Pessoa
#17. My husband was getting his sea legs-rereading Joseph Conrad with a side order of C S Forester.
Enid Nemy
#19. Today's hard news stories were yesterday's dystopian SF. Rereading
Pat Cadigan
#20. Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading.
R.A. Lafferty
#21. There were times, in the beginning, when I used my journal as a wailing wall, but I learned not to immortalize the darkness. Rereading it was counterproductive. What I needed was a place in which to collect the light.
Phyllis Theroux
#22. Rereading some of these writers, one is tempted to say that if anyone needed help to struggle against some of the unfortunate things they committed to paper, it was not Paul, but some of his twentieth-century interpreters.
N. T. Wright
#24. We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.
Damian Lewis
#25. It took me ten years to write a proper story. I floundered about trying to shape something, counting on the 'feeling' I had as I wrote, only to discover upon rereading my work that the feeling had disappeared, and what remained was an empty shell.
David Bergen
#26. Rereading the works of a favorite author and, once again, learning something new shows me they are not done with me yet.
Garry Fitchett
#27. Rizal is a compulsory course in school, but few teachers make Rizal's novels interesting. If students are taught to enjoy Rizal's works as literature instead of as a lodemine of 'patriotic' allusions I am sure they would not mind reading and rereading the 'Noli me Tangere'.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#28. A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#29. I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.
Joan Didion
#30. As an addict who will read anything, I obeyed, but I am not saved, and return to tell you neither what to read nor how to read it, only what I have read and think worthy of rereading, which may be the only pragmatic test for the canonical.
Harold Bloom
#31. I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.
Tao Lin
#32. if a book has one passage, one idea with the power to change a person's life, that alone justifies reading it, rereading it, and finding room for it on one's shelves.
Viktor E. Frankl
#33. The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learned from Virginia Woolf more than I even know how to articulate.
Lauren Groff
#34. I have made a similar suggestion for poetry: that one should approach it as pure sonority, reading and rereading it as a sort of music, and should not introduce meanings or intentions into the diction before clearly grasping the system of sounds that every poem must offer on pain of nonexistence.
Paul Valery
#35. Reiko had not kept a diary and was now denied the pleasure of assiduously rereading her record of the happiness of the past few months and consigning each page to the fire as she did so.
- Death in Midsummer and Other Stories
Yukio Mishima
#36. A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.
Italo Calvino
#37. In rereading, the irony is all dramatic.
DJK
#38. Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
Russell Baker
#40. I reread my favorite books to make sure they're still perfect, but rereading them wears away at their perfection.
Sarah Manguso
#41. The art (as opposed to the technology) of reading requires that you develop a beautiful tolerance for incomprehension. The greatest books are the books that you come to understand more deeply with time, with age and with rereading.
Michael Silverblatt
#42. The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
(About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987)
Anatole Broyard
#43. Maisie had never owned a book and couldn't imagine rereading anything when time was so short and the libraries so full.
Sarah Jane Stratford
#44. The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.
Michael Chabon
#45. Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come; it's a way of visiting an earlier self.
Lewis Buzbee
#46. The time spent rereading one book is one less new story I'll be exposed to in my life.
Michelle Madow
#47. One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time travel, the same way certain songs you hear on the radio do ... the whole thing returns, an eerie feeling that I'm sure you've experienced.
Philip K. Dick
#48. Liv grabbed the cookie nearest her and broke it open.
"It's up to you to make your happy ending."
Liv stared at it a moment, rereading the words. Did it mean life? Because if it did, then Liv disagreed. Sometimes life was downright unfair. Bad things happened to good people.
Danika Stone
#49. I started rereading 'The Dutchman' - I kind of just pulled it off the shelf.
Rashid Johnson
#50. Uncomplicate it. Don't make excuses. Some of life's biggest heartaches come from missed opportunities and lame excuses. Don't miss out on what could be the best chapter in your life because you're too busy rereading the last one.
Kandi Steiner
#51. I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time. After the last rereading (just now), I realize that time isn't the only thing that matters, time isn't the only source of terror. Pleasure can be terrifying too, and so can courage.
Roberto Bolano
#52. Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it's not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns.
Hilary Mantel
#53. Attempting to recall the material you are trying to learn - retrieval practice - is far more effective than simply rereading the material.
Barbara Oakley
#54. The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
Vince Vaughn
#55. While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.
Joanna Scott
#56. You can read a book more than once, you know. You might even find a book inside the book.
Kate Westerlund
#57. The reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.
Anne Fadiman
#58. To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.
Johnny Rich
#59. My favorite thing in the world to do is read a book. I read Heidi, which I love, then I read another book, then I read Heidi again. If I stopped reading Heidi in between the other books, I'd be able to read twice as many books, but the thing is I like reading Heidi. So I do.
Mindy Warshaw Skolsky
#60. I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
William Golding
#61. You can reread not from love or hatred but from a sense, often inchoate, that there's more to this book than you have ben yet able to receive.
Alan Jacobs
#62. There's always another story. When you read a book again and let your imagination take over, it can take you to new stories, so it's like a book inside the book!
Kate Westerlund
#63. Whenever one of us introduced an old favorite, we savored the other's first delight like a shared meal eaten with a newly acquired gusto, as if we'd never truly tasted it before.
Pamela Paul
#64. A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
Robertson Davies
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