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Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book. -- C. S. Lewis
I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.' -- Ian Mckellen
There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read. -- Carolina Herrera
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing. -- William Safire
It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting. -- Liane Moriarty
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. -- Clifton Fadiman
I'm reading Sebastian Faulks's 'Birdsong' at the moment. I read it when I was younger but decided to re-read it, as I remembered really liking it at the time. -- Eliza Doolittle
I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I would re-read them and reflect on the previous years of my life. -- Raina Telgemeier
My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books. -- Sadie Jones
I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most reliable neighbor to the right is Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening', which is dispiriting. That's a book I don't want to re-read. -- Susan Choi
I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending. -- Cory Doctorow
Usually, when I read something, I'm looking for the story first. And then, when I re-read it, I check every part of it to see whether every scene is necessary. You imagine yourself watching the movie, to see whether or not you're losing the through-line of the story. -- Gus Van Sant
I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage. -- James Laughlin
Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my island in the Seychelles. When I come back and re-read it, I think: 'What was all that about, Smith? It's fine, just get on with it.' -- Wilbur Smith
When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me. -- David Walliams
We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but we're still left wanting to know more. In my own case, it was 'Great Expectations' and Miss Havisham in particular. Luckily, writers have the option of making up the knowledge that reading doesn't supply. -- Ronald Frame
In re-reading 'Presumed Innocent,' the one thing that struck me - and I re-read the book four different times in writing 'Innocent,' interested in different things each time - but I did think there were a couple of extra loops in the plot that I probably didn't need. The other thing that sort of amazed me was how discursive the book was. -- Scott Turow
Read, re-read and un-read! -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We read to know we're not alone. -- William Nicholson
If you can read and don't, you're dumb. -- Malcolm Forbes
If you're going to read this, don't bother. -- Chuck Palahniuk
One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
You're a big help, Mr. I Read So Many Books. -- Laura Ruby
Shouldn't the commandments be re-written? No, they should be re-read! -- Richard L. Evans
Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do. -- Ewan McGregor
You're so easy to read but the book is boring me. -- Emilie Autumn
If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one. -- Richard Peck
Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying. -- Serena Williams
If you don't read much, you really don't know much. You're dangerous. -- Jim Trelease
Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies. -- Edward Norton
I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well. -- Edward Hirsch
We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them. -- Warren Zevon
I don't read reviews. I find them very distracting, whether they're good or bad. -- Eve Best
I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful. -- Neil Gaiman
In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there. -- Maria Dahvana Headley
I don't think you're entitled to read my mail between my daughters and me. -- George W. Bush
You should make it hard on yourself to write so you're easier to read. -- Fran Lebowitz
Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. -- James Lee Burke
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read. -- Jay Asher
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People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short. -- Mitch Albom
If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else? -- George Carlin
If you're a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. -- Bill Hybels
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed. -- Mark Twain
If you're going to read five books, three should be issues and two for fun. -- Eoin Colfer
You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read. -- Cassandra Clare
When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening. -- David Sedaris
With voice-over, you have to pretend like you're three, except you can talk and read. -- Molly Quinn
We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous. -- Noam Chomsky
I think it's the books that you read when you're young that live with you forever. -- J. K. Rowling
We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines? -- Walter Matthau
I don't read blogs. I'm living the life they're writing about. So why read about it? -- Nayvadius Cash
Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type. -- Michelle Rodriguez
If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough. -- Jane Campion
I always recommend people read nutrition labels so they know, for instance, how much fiber they're getting. -- Travis Lane Stork
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) -- Arthur Schopenhauer
If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work. -- Tucker Max
If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews. -- Oscar Hijuelos
If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year. -- Brian Tracy
When you read my poems or quotes remember you're stepping into the mind that steps outside of me -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. -- Dr. Seuss
Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write. -- Chris Bohjalian
You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every time -- Freddie Mercury
Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you. -- James Wolk
One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies. -- Joy Williams
Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read. -- John Wooden
You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses) -- Rachel Caine
It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye. -- Taylor Swift
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words. -- Elmore Leonard
I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears. -- Sandra Cisneros
It's funny when I read the tabloids and they're reporting on only a fraction of the life I'm leading. -- Zach Braff
Your partner cannot read your mind, so talk to your partner about how you're feeling and what you need. -- Drew Pinsky
Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams. -- Glen Duncan
It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people. -- Robert Kirkman
That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones? -- Jodi Picoult
When you read something that good, it's terrifying because you're thinking, "Oh, god, what if I don't get this?" -- Richard Dormer
I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head. -- Elizabeth Crook
I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head. -- Kim Cattrall
You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read. -- Christina Hoff Sommers
You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn. -- Ray Bradbury
Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters. -- Patrick Rothfuss
We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction. -- Clarence Darrow
I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything. -- John Mortimer
We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too. -- Nick Hornby
I don't read reviews if I know in advance they're negative, because I can't have my confidence undermined when I'm writing. -- Christopher Moore
I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work. -- Natalie Goldberg
If you play angry, you lose what you're supposed to do. On defense we just read our keys and play fast. -- Brian Urlacher
You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it. -- Tony Kushner
Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don't read that much but save yourself some until you're grown up. -- Albert Einstein
This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not. -- A. E. Housman
I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious. -- Mary Stuart Masterson
The beauty of what I read in the gospel is the intimacy of what we're called to, that there's no middle man. -- Jon Foreman
In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before. -- Lorin Stein
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It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview. -- John Hawkes
Without ego I don't know how identity works, I don't know... I need to sit down and re-read some philosophy or something. -- Sophia Amoruso
What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that. -- Isobelle Carmody
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. -- Susan Sontag
The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you're sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read. -- Guy Kawasaki
Every woman wants and needs different things. It's always best when you're honest and you speak up. It's hard to read minds. -- Nina Dobrev
A lot of my songs deal with spirituality and God, and I guess if you're in tune with that, you'll read into it. -- Lenny Kravitz
Motherfuckers will read a book that's one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we're taking over. -- Junot Diaz
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer -- Rita Dove
It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading. -- Mike Tyson
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer. -- Rita Dove
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
I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time. -- Robert Greene
There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever. -- Anthony Horowitz
I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work. -- Glenn Frey
Motherhood is nitty and gritty and brutal and wonderful, but everything I read is about the wonderful parts. Sometimes, you're really in the trenches! -- Constance Marie
When you read the book you see that these guys aren't holding any punches. They're straightforward. They're honest. They're giving you their honest opinion. -- Charles Barkley
If you read with empathy what Lincoln went through, then you realize what you're going through is nothing compared to what he went through. -- George W. Bush
You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read. -- Raymond Carver
I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read. -- Neil Strauss
It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it. -- Kate Winslet
I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots. -- Kandyse McClure
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. -- Neil Gaiman

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