I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having…

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

— Marina Tsvetaeva

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a…

— Marina Tsvetaeva

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a…

— Robert Frank

“As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

The Postman Always Rings Twice that's a book that I think every writer should read - that has to do with technique. But it's…

— Jonathan Dee

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different…

— Alice Oswald

One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because…

— Clint Smith

“No serious book lover will ever die having read every book he has managed to collect. This is not a sign of dilatoriness but…

— James V. Schall

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to…

— Nathalie Sarraute

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.

— E. Nesbit

Reading a book and having to re-read the same paragraph over and over again because your thoughts are too distracting.

— AmiT

After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have to have…

— Henry Rollins

“The Bible is the one book we’ve most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way.”

— Geoffrey Wood