Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second…

By the time I was writing the second book, my life had changed rather dramatically, thanks to the intervention of television, and I needed…

— John Hodgman

While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.

— Stephen J. Dubner

The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I…

— Shannon Hale

“You can measure how much you changed over the years by reading the same book twice”

— Ela Crain

There are infimal readers, readers who want to read the same book over and over, but will never read the same book twice.

— Brian Stableford

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

— Edmund Wilson

“Nobody ever reads the same book twice.”

— Robertson Davies

You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.

— Anonymous

Never love someone you already loved.. It's like reading a book twice. You know just what will come next .

— Anonymous

I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water…

— Natalie Goldberg

You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though…

— Max Roach

Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through

— Mohsin Hamid

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

— Arthur Brisbane

My first book deal was for two Mark Genevich novels. I hadn't planned on writing a second Genevich novel, but I was contracted to…

— Paul G. Tremblay

You have to find a way of shutting the future out and focusing on the writing. One of the problems I'll have with writing…

— Ayana Mathis