Book Quote by Anonymous

When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there…

— Clifton Fadiman

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there…

— Clifton Fadiman

“And yet rereading a book can often be a more significant, dramatic, and, yes, new experience than encountering an unfamiliar work.”

— Alan Jacobs

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

— David Mitchell

It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each time we…

— Ramona Koval

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.”

— Aman Jassal

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the…

— Michael Chabon

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

— Maurice Sendak

I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly…

— Elizabeth Strout