Re Reading Quotes
41 quotes by 34 authors
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Books worth reading are worth re-reading.
— Holbrook Jackson
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I used to have to do readings in church, and it was terrifying. I would never have my glasses. The words are printed so small…
— Jim Gaffigan
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What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.
— Christopher Hitchens
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If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble.
— Claire Messud
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But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work…
— Thomas Keneally
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The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
— Vernon Lee
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I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful…
— Antonia Fraser
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I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the figures the meanings…
— Johannes Kepler
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The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
— Reynolds Price
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When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don’t keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move on to the…
— Stephen Reid
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I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.
— Jeff VanderMeer
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
— Umberto Eco
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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
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There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination…
— Clive Barker
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The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need…
— Henry Hazlitt
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Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in…
— John Green
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This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’re reading this book every night…
— Mindy Kaling
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Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.
— C.S. Lewis
Who Wrote These Re Reading Quotes
34 authors contributed a total of 41 Re Reading Quotes, led by these top contributors: