Quotes About Rereading Books

#1. I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.

Jeanette Winterson

#2. 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

#3. But you can be transformed. Not overnight, but over time. Life is not a race.

Scott Jurek

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.

Michael Parenti

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. The Pacific Northwest is simply this: wherever the salmon can get to. Rivers without salmon have lost the life source of the area.

Timothy Egan

#11. You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

Oprah Winfrey

#12. 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

#13. 29The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Anonymous

#14. Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.

Elizabeth Chandler

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Michelle Madow

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

Johnny Rich

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. I reread my favorite books to make sure they're still perfect, but rereading them wears away at their perfection.

Sarah Manguso

#22. We are superior to the competition because we hire employees who work in an environment of belonging and purpose. We foster a climate where the employee can deliver what the customer wants. You cannot deliver what the customer wants by controlling the employee.

Horst Schulze

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

Lawrence Clark Powell

#24. She was beautiful, heratbreakingly beautiful - her eyes and her lips, the stripes on her naked breasts, her vulnerabilty.

Elliot Mabeuse

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

Kate Westerlund

#26. Talent attracts capital more effectively than capital attracts talent.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#27. 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

#28. No complaint ... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Adam Smith

#29. During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

Arnold Bennett

#30. Nothing is too small a subject for prayer, because nothing is too small to be the subject of God's care.

Henry Thomas Hamblin