Rereading Quotes

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

  Italo Calvino

  Book, Reading, Discovery

  Italo Calvino (2014). “Why Read the Classics?”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Men, May

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come; it's a way of visiting an earlier self.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Self, Years, Way

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• Reading books is good,
  Rereading good books is better.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Reading, Reading Books

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Reading, Lust

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 fresh insights. It was the rereader-- because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see.

  Rachel Simon

  Book, Two, Library

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• Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Greatness

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.8, University of Chicago Press

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• Rereading, we find a new book.

  Mason Cooley

  Book, New Books

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• Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Reading

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• I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Home, Nervous

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• The art (as opposed to the technology) of reading requires that you develop a beautiful tolerance for incomprehension. The greatest books are the books that you come to understand more deeply with time, with age and with rereading.

  Michael Silverblatt

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• 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 go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Discovery, Firsts, Encounters

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• Most of my reading is rereading.

  Susan Sontag

  Reading

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• One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time travel, the same way certain songs you hear on the radio do ... the whole thing returns, an eerie feeling that I'm sure you've experienced.

  Philip K. Dick

  Song, Writing, Eerie

  "The Golden Man". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1980.

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• What a person loves at 20 may seem stupid at 35. That doesn't mean the book was stupid, it means that the time when it spoke to the reader is past. So . . . I'm cautious about rereading favorite books. I hate to spoil the good feelings they created. Keeping the good feelings is more important than rereading the book. Moving on is a good thing.

  Carl Deuker

  Hate, Stupid, Moving

  Source: www.sjboysread.org

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• Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around you were dazzled by impressions, emotions, and tended to miss the finer points. In middle age you have the equipment to see the subtleties you missed before and you savor it more slowly.

  Eda LeShan

  Book, Missing, Age

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• So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.

  William T. Vollmann

  Drinking, Book, Reading

  William T Vollmann (2005). “Europe Central”, p.510, Penguin

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• When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want? Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame? Will you ask to be carried to the garage so you can sit in your car? Will you find comfort in rereading your financial statement? Of course not. What will matter then will be people. If relationships will matter most then, shouldn't they matter most now?

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, College, People

  Max Lucado (2009). “A Love Worth Giving: Living in the Overflow of God's Love”, p.160, Harper Collins

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• I visited Paterson many years ago - 20 some years ago as a kind of day trip because of William Carlos Williams, because of Allen Ginsberg having lived there. And I went to the Great Falls and sat really in the exact same spot as Adam Driver does as Paterson. And I walked around the factory buildings, and I was rereading - I was reading at the time the epic length poem "Paterson" by Williams.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Fall, Reading, Epic

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Knowing, Juice, Goes On

  Source: www.mhpbooks.com

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• Usually when I put together a book like this Death-Ray hardcover or that Ghost World special edition, then I have to reread it and see if there is anything I want to change or any re-coloring I want to do. That's when I'm faced with the actual work. When I'm working, I'm too close to it. I'm sort of inside, and I can't see it at all. So when I have that experience of rereading it years later, it's jarring.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Years, Together

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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

  Vince Vaughn

  Book, Lasts, Fountainhead

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• The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Fire, Never Quit

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• Roth Unbound is filled with intelligent readings and smart judgments. Because of the author's sympathy and sharp mind, it offers real insight into the creative process itself, and into Philip Roth's high calling as a great American artist. The book is, in some ways, a radical rereading of Roth's life and his work. It is impossible, by the end, not to feel a tender admiration for Roth as a novelist and indeed for Claudia Roth Pierpont as an empathetic and brilliant critic.

  Colm Toibin

  Smart, Real, Book

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• We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have a stop, while there is more to read than there ever was before. From the Yahwist and Homer to Freud, Kafka, and Beckett is a journey of nearly three millennia. Since that voyage goes past harbors as infinite as Dante, Chaucer, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy, all of whom amply compensate a lifetime's rereadings, we are in the pragmatic dilemma of excluding something else each time we read or reread extensively.

  Harold Bloom

  Past, Journey, Three

  Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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