Quotes of: Rereading Keyword

There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the same book repeatedly. Now she understood those rereaders differently ... she realized it was not the rereading that led to fre...

The Story of Beautiful Girl

Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminu...

William Safire

A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still he searched, one more Ithaca for which he was forever bound.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

I don't reread my books.

Graham Swift

Rereading, we find a new book.

Mason Cooley

I often reread books I have written.

Taylor Caldwell

Most of my reading is rereading.

Conversations with Susan Sontag

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

Vince Vaughn

I read and reread and recommended and rarely rejected, became one of those readers who will read trashy stories as long as they're not too terrible--well, even perhaps the truly terrible ones--and will reread something she's already read, even if it'...

Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

Barry Hannah

Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.

Ellen Rose

The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.

Thomas Langmann

When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.

John Irving

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

Italo Calvino

I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.

John Updike

While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.

Joanna Scott

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

Russell Baker

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

Francois Mauriac

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Clifton Fadiman