Books Quote by Cynthia Ozick

“A re-read is more leisurely than a first read. I know the plot, after all, I know what happens. I may still cry (embarrassingly,…

— Jo Walton

“I, too, feel the need to reread the books I have already read," a third reader says, "but at every rereading I seem to…

— Italo Calvino

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

— Jean Rostand

“Rereading has three strikes against it. It is time consuming. It doesn’t result in durable memory. And it often involves a kind of unwitting…

— Peter C. Brown

Our reading can affect our imaginations in ways of which we are not consciously aware. It is quite common...to re-read something after a gap…

— Tom Shippey

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

— Alan Jacobs

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

Most of my reading is rereading.

— Susan Sontag

“Attempting to recall the material you are trying to learn—retrieval practice—is far more effective than simply rereading the material.”

— Barbara Oakley

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

— Maryanne Wolf

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…

— Malcolm Gladwell

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand…

— John Locke