Books Quote by John Irving

I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer did it.

— Jacqueline Woodson

When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is done.

— Michael Connelly

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

— Angela Carter

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

I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at…

— Liza Campbell

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

— Richard Flanagan

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away…

— Ben Elton

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

— Alan Jacobs

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original…

— Joan Didion

I like looking at a book and asking myself, 'How do I replicate that experience I just had as a reader?'

— Jane Goldman

Rereading, we find a new book.

— Mason Cooley

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

— Philip Roth