Bears Quote by Anonymous

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

— Anatole Broyard

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

— Thomas Carlyle

When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first…

— Jane Smiley

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

— Elizabeth Drew

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

— William Safire

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.

— Anonymous

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

So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that, when reading…

— Nick Hornby

One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it…

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

— Cyril Connolly

While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering,…

— Joanna Scott

During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages…

— Patricia Briggs