Re Reading Quotes
Most popular re-reading quotes
![A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. - Robertson Davies quote.](/img/q/20/14520A-a-truly-great-book-should-be-read-youth-again-maturity-robertson-davies.png)
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
!["Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread. - François Mauriac quote.](/img/q/21/14521A-tell-me-what-you-read-and-ill-tell-you-who-francois-mauriac.png)
"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.
![If a book read when young is a lover, that same book, reread later on, is a friend. - Anne Fadiman quote.](/img/q/02/27302A-if-a-book-read-when-young-is-lover-that-same-anne-fadiman.png)
If a book read when young is a lover, that same book, reread later on, is a friend.
![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 quote.](/img/q/42/28242A-when-you-reread-a-classic-you-do-not-see-more-clifton-fadiman.png)
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.
![The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have the feel of losses. It is like going back to a favorite house, country, person; nothing is where it belongs, including one's heart. - Mary McCarthy quote.](/img/q/13/36613A-the-return-to-a-favorite-novel-is-generally-tied-up-mary-mccarthy.png)
The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have the feel of losses. It is like going back to a favorite house, country, person; nothing is where it belongs, including one's heart.
![The reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again. - Anne Fadiman quote.](/img/q/02/38602A-the-reader-who-plucks-a-book-from-her-shelf-only-anne-fadiman.png)
The reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.
![Rereading, not reading, is what counts. - Jorge Luis Borges quote.](/img/q/46/38846A-rereading-not-reading-is-what-counts-jorge-luis-borges.png)
Rereading, not reading, is what counts.
Rereading, we find a new book.
You can reread not from love or hatred but from a sense, often inchoate, that there's more to this book than you have been yet able to receive.
The greatest pleasures of reading consist in re-reading.
![If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell it to you again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book. - Ursula Le Guin quote.](/img/q/54/38854A-if-a-book-told-you-something-when-you-were-fifteen-ursula-le-guin.png)
If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell it to you again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.
![I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. - C. S. Lewis quote.](/img/q/55/38855A-i-cant-imagine-a-man-really-enjoying-book-reading-it-c-s-lewis.png)
I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
![Any book which is at all important should be reread immediately. - Arthur Schopenhauer quote.](/img/q/58/38858A-any-book-which-is-at-all-important-should-be-reread-arthur-schopenhauer.png)
Any book which is at all important should be reread immediately.
Thou Shalt Not Let a Day Pass Without Re-Reading Something Great.
If you have a good paperback library of great writers, and if you keep re-reading them, you will have access to more secrets of literature than all the culture phonies who set the tone in big cities.
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.
![I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me. - Jeanette Winterson quote.](/img/q/62/38862A-im-always-nervous-about-going-home-just-as-i-am-jeanette-winterson.png)
I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.