A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
My husband was getting his sea legs-rereading Joseph Conrad with a side order of C S Forester. — Enid Nemy Copy Share Image
Life is a book, you can't start a new chapter if you keep rereading the last. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each year is like writing a new chapter in a book, make each one worth rereading. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.” — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I love rereading Shakespeare plays and Im constantly finding bits that Ive overlooked or not understood before. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was struck by what I had forgotten of the book: in a manner of pages, we… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
When you're rereading or editing your book and you start to expect that this work is going to be reviewed, and you… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Roth Unbound is filled with intelligent readings and smart judgments. Because of the author's sympathy and sharp mind, it offers real insight… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it,… — Hilary Mantel 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
“As an addict who will read anything, I obeyed, but I am not saved, and return to tell you neither what to… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Rereading one's own novels after many years is always a fraught business, but when a novel has fallen out of print -… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I visited Paterson many years ago - 20 some years ago as a kind of day trip because of William Carlos Williams,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I’ve been rereading your story. I think it’s about me in a way that might not be flattering, but that’s okay. We… — Richard Siken 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
“Emerson said that a library is a magic chamber in which there are many enchanted spirits. They wake when we call them.… — Jorge Luis Borges 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
“If you went purely by numbers, then books would win hands down. I’ve loved maybe a handful of people in my entire… — Katarina Bivald Copy Share Image
Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will… — William Safire Copy Share Image
We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“It’s tempting to see books the way we see gadgets: that we need the very latest, most up-to-date version. But just because… — Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
