Reread Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me.

Ellen Potter

#3. Keep your hand moving. (Don't pause to reread the line you have just written. That's stalling and trying to get control of what you're saying.)

Natalie Goldberg

#4. Morse code didn't leave a paper trail, or an email thread on the screen of your tablet. She would never be able to scroll back and reread the exchange she'd just had with Rufus.

Neal Stephenson

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

Heidi Julavits

#6. I reread? A lie! I don't dare reread. I can't reread. What good would it do me to reread? The person in the writing is someone else. I no longer understand a thing ...

Fernando Pessoa

#7. I ram my phone back in my pocket and reread the same page in Hamlet for the thirteenth time. I still don't see how this is supposed to be English. I have no clue what these people are saying.

Rachel Harris

#8. Remorse, etymologically, is the action of biting again: that's what the feeling does to you. Imagine the strength of the bite when I reread my words. They seemed like some ancient curse I had forgotten even uttering.

Julian Barnes

#9. 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

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

Michael Connelly

#11. The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I read those thousand words and cursorily edit that. Then I write the next thousand. I do that all the way to the end of the book and then I reread the book quite a few times, editing as go through.

Walter Mosley

#12. I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.

Vladimir Nabokov

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.

Roland Barthes

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

Sarah Manguso

#20. The single page of text was signed by the Winter Queen's official seal. I reread it three times.
You can't be serious. She's making you move in with me?

Kalayna Price

#21. When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.

Thomas Merton

#22. There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.

Peter Straub

#23. I don't reread my books.

Graham Swift

#24. 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

#25. My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

Gene Wolfe

#26. Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.

Gus Van Sant

#27. I'm following it perfectly. Although, if this were a novel, I'd take the trouble to reread the last paragraph as carefully as possible.

Cesar Aira

#28. I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Laurie Halse Anderson

#30. Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass ninja assassin.

Chuck Palahniuk

#31. I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.

Thomas Langmann

#32. Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.

Vladimir Nabokov

#33. 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

#34. I rise at 6. Strong coffee helps me face the paper edition of 'The New York Times.' It daily challenges my own capacity for faking anything deranged enough to sound true. I work till 2 P.M. unless I am in the throes of finishing something. I rewrite to be reread.

Allan Gurganus

#35. Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)

Horace

#36. I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

Ian Rankin

#37. To quote French author Francois Mauriac, 'Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who your are' is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

Sarah Wendell

#38. He settled deeper into the armchair and put his feet up on the fender. It was bliss, it was eternity. Suddenly, as one sometimes does with a book of which one knows that one will ultimately read and reread very word, he opened it at a different place and found himself at the third chapter.

George Orwell

#39. Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

Arthur Schopenhauer

#40. It makes me want to go back and reread everything I've ever read, now that I'm experiencing these things with someone in real life.

Colleen Hoover

#41. 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

#42. That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You are my heart's hidden poem. I reread you, memorize you every moment we're apart.

Laura Whitcomb

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

Johnny Rich

#44. When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers. And then when it's ready, I reread, recorrect, and retype it. Everything is my own work. I do not give it to secretaries or to typists.

Elie Wiesel

#45. read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with a horror which at times assails me yet.

Robert W. Chambers

#46. 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

#47. I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.

Harri Holkeri

#48. It's not the subject of narration that interests me, but the structure. That's why I stay in touch with my old works, which I reread regularly. I don't hesitate to take up previously used images or even whole scenes.

Dumitru Tepeneag

#49. I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.

Elizabeth Strout

#50. Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don't just flash by but deserve some reflection.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#51. For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty about Goethe and Charles Dickens from what they chose to tell, even though they have been dead for years.

Jodi Picoult

#52. I reread this letter several times. I could scarcely deny its authorship or its ugliness. All I could plead was that I had been its author then, but was not its author now. Indeed, I didn't recognise that part of myself from which the letter came. But perhaps this was simply further self-deception.

Julian Barnes

#53. The point is that we already know it doesn't work out, but we reread them anyway, because the good stuff that comes before the ending is worth it." This

Emery Lord

#54. I reread An Imperial Affliction until Mom woke up and rolled over toward me around six. She nuzzled her head against my shoulder, which felt uncomfortable and vaguely Augustinian.

John Green

#55. It is time, and long past time, to reread the gospels as what we can only call political theology - not because they are not after all about God and spirituality and new birth and holiness and all the rest, but precisely because they are.

N. T. Wright

#56. What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

Liz Carpenter

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. He read and reread 'Ulysses'. He looked back at Amy. They were the first beautiful thing I ever knew, Dorrigo Evans said.

Richard Flanagan

#60. When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because the first impressions were so powerful they have stayed with me.

Linda Grant

#61. When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is.

Daniel Clowes

#62. 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

#63. They would go back to their homes and put me to rest, a letter from the past never reopened or reread.

Alice Sebold

#64. I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.

John Updike

#65. Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.

Jonathan Galassi

#66. Clip your year-end column and put it away for 10 years. See if you don't feel like an idiot when you reread it.

Steve Albini

#67. In answer to the question, "Shouldn't the commandments be rewritten?," someone thoughtfully replied, "No, they should be reread."

Richard L. Evans

#68. I highlight everything I find interesting, and then type out everything I've highlighted, and then print out everything I've typed, and reread these printed notes as often as possible.

Eleanor Catton

#69. Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.

Walter Isaacson

#70. The committed student needs to be wide awake, to look and listen closely, to slow down, scrutinize and reflect. The language of poetry is so dense, so multivalent, that it demands a concentrated act of attention - and offers its greatest rewards only to those who reread.

Ezra Pound

#71. It's embarrassing to admit how many times I've reread the following: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,' '1984,' 'Lord of the Flies,' 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,' 'Germinal,' 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle,' and 'A Moveable Feast.'

Suzanne Collins

#72. 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

#73. You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.

Mary Matalin

#74. I thought about what I'd just reread in my father's book. About going out and just driving, and how you can only do it when you're young.

Anonymous

#75. The accepted etymology of the word religion was that it came from religere, meaning "to bind together," but Cicero had said its true root was relegere, "to reread." The truth was, she liked both answers.

James S.A. Corey

#76. When I wrote 'The Pregnant Widow' three or four years ago, I tried to reread my first novel, 'The Rachel Papers,' because their young heroes are the same age. I couldn't finish it. It seemed to me so technically slapdash and weak.

Martin Amis

#77. each day be open to the world, be ready to think; each day be ready not to accept what is said just because it is said, be predisposed to reread what is read; each day investigate, question, and doubt.

Paulo Freire

#78. Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

Joyce Maynard

#79. 'Religion,' I should note, has a disputed etymology in Latin: some say it's from 'relegere,' meaning 'to reread', while others say it's from religare, meaning 'to connect' or 'link.' Literature is life's fastener.

Joshua Cohen

#80. By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.

Roald Dahl

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

Ellen Rose

#82. After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.

Jean Cocteau

#83. Writing for nobody? Impossible. You fumble, you stop. I don't even take the trouble of expressing myself so that when I reread myself I can understand whatever it was I was trying to say. Gilles will figure it out, he'll work it through.

Felix Guattari

#84. I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.

Michel Houellebecq

#85. I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.

Gore Vidal

#86. A book
the book that was, for some reason, THE book
can be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the difference.

Anna Quindlen

#87. I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

Barry Hannah

#88. And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.

Milan Kundera

#89. Jean Louise grinned. Her father said it took at least five years to learn law after one left law school: one practiced economy for two years, learned Alabama Pleading for two more, reread the Bible and Shakespeare for the fifth. Then one was fully equipped to hold on under any conditions.

Harper Lee

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I couldn't read, because reading didn't feel the same.

Kami Garcia

#93. I reread 'Nicholas and Alexandra' in my early twenties, and I never forgot the story.

Kathryn Harrison

#94. 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

#95. it took at least five years to learn law after one left law school: one practiced economy for two years, learned Alabama Pleading for two more, reread the Bible and Shakespeare for the fifth. Then one was fully equipped to hold on under any conditions. "What

Harper Lee

#96. If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

Mignon McLaughlin

#97. My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even young minds can make sense of and for the heart of the characters, who span a wide range of ages. I reread it every year.

Ridley Pearson

#98. Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how many times I have reread the Wolfe stories, but plenty. I know exactly what is coming and how it is all going to end, but it doesn't matter. That's writing.

P.G. Wodehouse

#99. The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.

Hanif Kureishi

#100. 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