Reread Books Quotes

#1. I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.

Laura Anne Gilman

#2. I often reread books I have written.

Taylor Caldwell

#3. I reread books to measure my degree of difference from myself.

Heidi Julavits

#4. A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

Richard Flanagan

#5. Reread favourite books as if you are taking apart a clock

Lemony Snicket

#6. I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.

Alan Lightman

#7. With "The Thousand and One Nights", I learned and never forgot that we should read only those books that force us to reread them.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#8. She doesn't know I cry for the changing times. That just as I reread favourite books, some small part of me hoping for a different ending, I find myself hoping against hope that the war will never come. That this time, somehow, it will leave us be.

Kate Morton

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.

Ellen Rose

#12. When I reread it as a teenager, Fahrenheit 451 had become a book about independence, about thinking for yourself. It was about treasuring books and the dissent inside the covers of books. It was about how we as humans begin by burning books and end by burning people.

Ray Bradbury

#13. Those who talk about books as commodities are inauthentic, just as those who collect acquaintances can be superficial in their friendships. A novel you like resembles a friend. You read it and reread it, getting to know it better. Like a friend, you accept it the way it is; you do not judge it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#14. The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it, or how my own passing years have cast a new light on it.

Michael Upchurch

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

Johnny Rich

#16. Many books have mattered enormously to my life and work. 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens would be one of several contenders for 'most influential.' I first read it at 13 and have reread it dozens of times since.

Cheryl Mendelson

#17. A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still he searched, one more Ithaca for which he was forever bound.

Richard Flanagan

#18. I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#19. Do not judge a man by the books on his shelf that he has read but by the books on his shelf that he does not reread.

Anonymous

#20. I don't reread my books.

Graham Swift

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

Sarah Manguso

#22. I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept.

Anne McCaffrey

#23. I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.

Francine Prose

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

Kate Westerlund

#25. I keep three kinds of books: those I want to read, those I want to reread, and those I want to reopen just to confirm how bad they are.

Sarah Manguso

#26. Writing a NYT bestseller was a delightful experience. But there are many books which are read by few that should be read and reread by many, as well as books bought by many that are hardly worth the ink.

Ron Brackin

#27. What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.

Isobelle Carmody

#28. When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them.

Michael Connelly

#29. Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.

Walter Farley

#30. She ate toast in bed, then reread a favorite book, taking comfort from a story where she knew the outcome would be good and just and right.

Sarah Mayberry