Discouraging Quote by Gore Vidal

I don't tend to re-read things, but never say never.

— Phoebe Fox

“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

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

— Chaim Potok

Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Most of my reading is rereading.

— Susan Sontag

I had this bad habit of not writing out a first draft and going back. For me it was the first sentence, then the…

— Donald Ray Pollock

My favorite texts are the ones where you re-read and it still puts a smile on your face like it's the first time you…

— Amit Verma

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

— Jean M. Auel

There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.

— Kenzaburo Oe

Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I think that's…

— Ramsey Campbell

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

— Angela Carter

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

— Catherine the Great