Quotes About Rereading A Book

#1. And yet rereading a book can often be a more significant, dramatic, and, yes, new experience than encountering an unfamiliar work.

Alan Jacobs

#2. Rereading, we find a new book

Mason Cooley

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do.

Charles Bukowski

#6. Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Vince Lombardi

#7. I only eat organic. I love salads and believe food is our best medicine. My son is so brainwashed, he thinks McDonald's is the devil.

Deborra-Lee Furness

#8. Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

Charles Lamb

#9. If we lived each day as our last, I bet we'd all be a lot more honest with people, because we wouldn't have to care what people think anymore.

Ellen DeGeneres

#10. Your weapons-master appears to have an actual, beating heart," she said to Raphael. "Who knew?"
"Jessamy."
"I concede that point."
Elena referring to Galen

Nalini Singh

#11. The time spent rereading one book is one less new story I'll be exposed to in my life.

Michelle Madow

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

Catullus

#15. Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

Ralph Marston

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

Abu Bakar Bashir

#19. 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

#20. The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

Vince Vaughn

#21. 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

#22. I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

Bob Mould

#23. A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

Italo Calvino

#24. You can read a book more than once, you know. You might even find a book inside the book.

Kate Westerlund

#25. Reading books is good,
Rereading good books is better.

Lawrence Clark Powell

#26. Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers.

Jennifer E. Smith

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.

Johnny Rich

#30. 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

#31. Amanda Davis has a wicked and inspired imagination.

Brady Udall

#32. You double your intensity with skill.

Twyla Tharp

#33. It's hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without "Good Night, and Good Luck" coming up in the same conversation.

Tavis Smiley

#34. 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

#35. It is a nightmare scenario for any executive who works in an industry that relies on asymmetries in information between the producer and the consumer.

Alfred Hermida

#36. 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