A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
This status is so good you will read it twice this status is so good you just read it twice. — Green Monk Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“There are so many good books waiting to be read, I’ll never go back and read one twice.” — Deb Baker Copy Share Image
“Reading those books is all he does these days. I think he’s even read some of them twice . What kind of… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas,… — Horace Copy Share Image
“My favorite thing in the world to do is read a book. I read Heidi, which I love, then I read another… — Mindy Warshaw Skolsky Copy Share Image
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice. — Irving Howe Copy Share Image