Top 100 Re Reading Quotes
#1. I am no fan of books. And chances are, if you're reading this, you and I share a healthy skepticism about the printed word. Well, I want you to know that this is the first book I've ever written, and I hope it's the first book you've ever read. Don't make a habit of it.
Stephen Colbert
#2. If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.
Charlie Munger
#3. Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don't even realize they're doing it, and a lot of readers don't know they're reading it. That's what makes it so scary in some cases.
Patrick Rothfuss
#4. I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.
Jeff VanderMeer
#5. They say you can't read the next chapter of your life, if you keep re reading the last one. But then every car has a rear-view mirror.
Anonymous
#6. It's true that you might be socially isolated because you're reading in the library, at home and so on, but you're intensely alive. In fact you're much more alive than these folk walking the streets of New York in crowds, with no intellectual interrogation and questioning going at all.
Cornel West
#7. You're reading one of those books in which the author is in love with the reader. My life.
Saleem Sharma
#8. If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.
Clint Eastwood
#9. You can't ever let yourself be thrown by a camera. That's never good for an actor. When you're reading the script, you want to work with someone you trust so there's nothing to worry about.
Jennifer Lawrence
#10. But, you know, do what you like! Have a million books! I was only, like, asking. It's still a book if you're reading it on an iPad. Soup is soup whatever bowl it's in.
Fredrik Backman
#11. Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.
Lily Allen
#12. I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.
Ang Lee
#13. If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
Don Marquis
#14. I giggled. "You're reading my mind.
Kiera Cass
#15. Really, I want you to finish this book feeling like we could become friends, if the timing was right. That's it. Oh, and by the way, you should drink while you're reading this book. If you want to play a drinking game, I suggest you take a shot when you feel like I am abusing commas.
Alida Nugent
#16. I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.
Haruki Murakami
#17. If you're reading this ...
Congratulations, you're alive.
If that's not something to smile about,
then I don't know what is.
Chad Sugg
#18. If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.
George Carlin
#19. When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading.
Sandra Cisneros
#20. It's because right now? YOU'RE READING. That's what the sexy people do.
Jenny Lawson
#21. Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were doing something to the book, whereas in fact the book was doing something to me.
Sara Levine
#22. When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!
Emile Hirsch
#23. The best scripts I read are usually pretty - they move really quickly, there's not a lot of exposition in between all of what's happening, so you can really just flow with the lines, and you're reading and it has a momentum and you understand it emotionally.
Kirsten Dunst
#24. The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
Reynolds Price
#25. I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
Antonia Fraser
#26. It's very rare that you get a part that you actually like. People have a misconception, whether it be because actors lie or because you're reading interviews from giantly, massively famous actors, but you don't just get offered parts, all the time. You actually have to work to get them.
Zoey Deutch
#28. I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't really have any guarantees that what you're reading wasn't written out of friendship or spite.
Michael Dirda
#29. Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.
Khaled Hosseini
#30. You're never alone when you're reading a book.
Susan Wiggs
#31. I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!
Sara Sheridan
#32. If you're reading this, then I guess someone, somewhere does go through the rubbish and read every piece of paper that gets balled up and tossed away. So in that case here it is- my name's Sal.
Alex Scarrow
#33. It's the feelings or emotions that you experience while you're reading a book that you remember, not the details that make up the plot.
Frederick Dillen
#34. If you're reading this book, it means you're more fortunate than the nearly one billion people in the world who can't read, many of whom will be stuck in a life of poverty.
Anonymous
#35. If you're reading this, then maybe you know you ought to read everything. And maybe you know you ought to read deeply. Because there's witchery in these words and spellwork in the spine.
Traci Chee
#36. Find a quiet place, and just read. If you're reading an ebook, clear away everything else but your ebook reader.
Then you settle into the reading, and enjoy it. Bask in the luxury of reading without distractions.
Leo Babauta
#37. I raised an eyebrow at him. "Don't be that guy. Didn't you know that talking to someone while they're reading a book ups the likelihood of you getting stabbed by like four hundred percent?
Staci Hart
#38. I like Sade. I'm re-reading Juliette. I skip the philosophy and read the salacious bits. His descriptive imagination is incredible.
Michael Gira
#39. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for.
Franz Kafka
#40. As an actor, it's a relatively passive job unless you're generating your own content or writing your own content. So to a certain degree you're at the mercy of what is available, what you're reading, what you become passionate about, and ultimately, what people want to hire you for.
Elijah Wood
#41. When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.
Diana Gabaldon
#42. When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes part of your identity, at least while you're reading it. You become changed by reading it.
David Ferry
#43. To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.
I'd never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people.
C.S. Lewis
#44. The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything.
Henry Hazlitt
#45. I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way
Blake Nelson
#46. When you're reading, like, a character's thoughts, or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me, that's what the whole point of fiction is.
Joe Meno
#47. When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"?
John Gallagher Jr.
#48. I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.
Libba Bray
#49. All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.
Harvey Milk
#50. When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum.
Richard Grossman
#51. If you're reading this ... you've been given the gift to breathe! Use your gift to focus and better your life!
Timothy Pina
#53. Whenever you see someone react to something they're reading on their phone, that's life being lived.
Graham Linehan
#54. Don't just read books that are best-sellers or books that you agree with, challenge your own thinking as you're reading.
Rowena Crosbie
#55. All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.
Mario Batali
#56. Statistically, if you're reading this sentence, you're an oddball. The average American spends three minutes a day reading a book. At this moment, you and I are engaged in an essentially antiquated interaction. Welcome, fellow Neanderthal!
Dick Meyer
#57. You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you're reading G.K. Chesterton, then you're a Catholic.
Ross Douthat
#58. It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.
Mike Tyson
#59. When you're reading Chekov, you're in this world that he's created. I never would have created that world. I don't know anything about that time period or that setting or those groups of people or what those experiences were, but oh my gosh, it's amazing to daydream on it and put yourself there.
Brit Marling
#60. Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly.
Mem Fox
#61. Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.
James Patterson
#62. No " Grandlibby replied. "Hail comes from hell. The devil sent it because he's happy that you're reading evil garbage.
Jenny Lawson
#63. It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.
Mary J. Blige
#64. People don't understand how hard it is to get recognized, how hard it is to get people to read your books. How hard it is to get people to even to understand what they're reading when they're talking to you about their books.
Walter Mosley
#65. My point here, young couples, is that baby-having is extremely serious business, and you probably don't have the vaguest idea what you're doing, as is evidenced by the fact that you're reading a very sloppy and poorly researched book.
Dave Barry
#66. I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects.
Edward St. Aubyn
#67. Decide, before you start, that you're going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you're reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn't to persuade you to change, it's to help you choose what to change.
Seth Godin
#68. It's like you're reading a book and every time someone's tearing the pages.
Sara Shepard
#69. When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options.
Jerry Seinfeld
#70. You know, sometimes, very innocently, you can develop a sort of fascination with a man, and then you see all these little signs that actually don't mean anything, but it's too late because you're reading in them exactly what you want to read. Be careful, is all I'm saying. It's easy to get fooled.
Emily Croy Barker
#71. Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people.
Paul Park
#72. You should always have 2 books ... the one you're reading and the one you're writing.
Sterling W. Sill
#73. There are celebrated literary lions who've won Pulitzers and Booker prizes for ideas that Dick would toss aside in an early chapter, but ... oh, what's the use. You evidently already know the score, because you're reading this.
Philip K. Dick
#74. If you're reading this and you think that maybe you could love someone of the same gender (or nongender), all I have to say to you is this: Congratulations! You're perfect and wonderful and more alive than you ever knew. Be proud of who you are because you're already more than enough.
Hannah Hart
#75. If you're in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you're reading, it's fate all the way.
David Mitchell
#76. If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
William Safire
#77. No. You can't understand. Because you're reading the last chapter of something without having read the first chapter. You're a little guy, Bode. Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when they're usually coming in at the end.
Joe Hill
#78. There's this thing that I like to call the RC Sproul principle of hermenutics.
When you're reading the bible and you come across someone doing something really stupid, don't say to yourself "I'm glad I'm not him". Ask yourself "How am I that stupid?
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#79. I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
Umberto Eco
#80. You can't be real," Delilah murmurs.
"Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?
Jodi Picoult
#81. Sometimes, despite the fact that you're reading through masses of material, you just can't not think about a certain event, for it seems to capture the reality of the entire situation so much better than any set of statistics.
Nicholson Baker
#82. Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#83. When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong.
Alexandra Breckenridge
#84. There was no mistaking her daughter's handwriting. And the words... "If you're reading this, I'm already dead.
Elizabeth Heiter
#85. I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.
Francis Spufford
#86. As parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them, talk to them about what they're reading, and make time for this by turning off the television set ourselves. Libraries are a critical tool to help parents do this.
Barack Obama
#87. If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!
Julianne Moore
#88. When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it.
Kristy Swanson
#89. For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.
May Sarton
#90. Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really.
Robert Barry
#91. Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it.
John Goodman
#92. A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to them, but rather to refuse to allow yourself to be interrupted while you're reading.
Karen Karbo
#93. By the time you're reading this warning, you've already acted responsibly.
Hugh Howey
#94. You Can't Start The Next Chapter Of Your Life If You Keep Re-Reading The Last One.
Unknown
#95. I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#96. WHEN YOU'RE READING YOU SHOULD PRETEND YOU'RE REALLY THERE BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE THE BOOK MOR INTERESTING!
Mary Downing Hahn
#97. The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
Vernon Lee
#98. If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up my book. I think the one thing that will kill that relationship is if you feel me condescending to you in the process.
George Saunders
#99. I love you, Half-Pint. Love that little baby. You understand where I'm at with all of that?" ( ... ) "I know you aren't on the same page as me just yet, Cora, and for right now I'm happy enough we're reading the same book. Eventually you have to turn the page, though, you got me?
Jay Crownover
#100. Remember, you're reading for pleasure. If you pick up a book and don't like it, put it down. Never read what you think you should read. Never feel inadequate if you don't like what you're 'supposed' to like. Reading is personal. Yours is the only opinion that matters.
Philip Riley
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