Book Quote by Edmund Wilson

You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.

— 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

“No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.”

— Neil Gaiman

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

— David Mitchell

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

— John Hughes

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

To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one.

— Isaac Marion

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

— Roland Barthes

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has…

— Terry Pratchett

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

— Jean Rostand

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

— Alan Lightman