I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I write a lyric, but when I reread it, I think it's awful and either hide it or crumple it up. — Tiffany Darwish Copy Share Image
I have all of Pu La's books and have reread each and every one of his works, multiple times. — Ashok Saraf Copy Share Image
The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“The New Testament does not need to be rewritten, but it needs to reread.” — Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg Copy Share Image
I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I reread a lot. I must have read 'The Once and Future King,' 'Watership Down' and Mary Renault's 'Theseus' books at least… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“I'm following it perfectly. Although, if this were a novel, I'd take the trouble to reread the last paragraph as carefully as… — César Aira Copy Share Image
“I thought about what I’d just reread in my father’s book. About going out and just driving, and how you can only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it,… — Michael Upchurch Copy Share Image
I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
It's not the subject of narration that interests me, but the structure. That's why I stay in touch with my old works,… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
She doesn't know I cry for the changing times. That just as I reread favourite books, some small part of me hoping… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“Egerton taught her how to approach a challenging book. She should read and reread slowly, making marginal notes when she came across… — Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge Copy Share Image
“The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
“I probably reread novels more often than I read new ones. The novel form is made for rereading. Novels are by their… — Tessa Hadley Copy Share Image
So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“This is the explanation I used to have on the site before my page got turned into an author's page. Don't get… — D.R. Slaten Copy Share Image
“Roland was so used to the pervasive sense of failure that he was unprepared for the blood-rush of success. He breathed differently.… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“I had to go back and reread the page a few times. As I read it, I kept drifting out of the… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
“I read and reread and recommended and rarely rejected, became one of those readers who will read trashy stories as long as… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I, too, feel the need to reread the books I have already read," a third reader says, "but at every rereading I… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“So this is supposed to be the how, and when, and why, and what or reading - about the way that, when… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James's "The Wings of the Dove." I love James. — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
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