I do like people to read the books twice, because I write…

I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast.

— Martellus Bennett

“I wish humans could live twice: once to write scholarly works, the second to dedicate to the public”

— Hasan Hanafi

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

— Samuel Johnson

“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”

— Cyril Connolly

Frankly I never seriously read my father's books until after he died. Up to then, there had been no point.

— Jack Hemingway

“You cannot have a taste for minimalist décor if you seriously read books.”

— Linda Grant

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that…

— Joseph Epstein

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

— Cyril Connolly

Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

— Peter J. Daniels

This status is so good you will read it twice this status is so good you just read it twice.

— Green Monk

A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read…

— Karl Kraus

You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.

— Ewan McGregor

“There are so many good books waiting to be read, I’ll never go back and read one twice.”

— Deb Baker

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

— Henry David Thoreau