Books Quote by Peter J. Daniels

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

— Cyril Connolly

The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

— Irving Howe

“Reading those books is all he does these days. I think he’s even read some of them twice . What kind of disturbed individual…

— Derek Landy

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

— Cyril Connolly

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

— Henry David Thoreau

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that…

— Joseph Epstein

This status is so good you will read it twice this status is so good you just read it twice.

— Green Monk

A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read…

— Karl Kraus

I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are…

— William Golding

You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.

— Ewan McGregor

“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”

— Cyril Connolly