Book Quote by Jean Rostand Download Open image “Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.” — Jean Rostand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Forgettable Inspirational Love Prerequisites Reading
“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 Copy Share Image
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers those that… — James A. Secord Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
