Arts Quote by Veronika Carnaby

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

— Alan Jacobs

“Because with a really good book you get something new every time you read it. Because…Well…Because you're a different person each time.”

— Derrolyn Anderson

“A book--the book that was, for some reason, THE book--can be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the difference.”

— Anna Quindlen

“A book reread is a new story.”

— Moonstarsenergy

“Just because it's a novel--can't it also be different?”

— John Deaton

“Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before.”

— Zadie Smith

“And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.”

— Gregory Maguire

“Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.”

— Magus Tor

When a new book appears one should read an old one.

— Winston Churchill

“I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“If there's a better book than this, I haven't written it.”

— Stephen Colbert

There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I…

— Winston Churchill