Quotes about Re-reading

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading. Votes: 1

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it. Votes: 1

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book. Votes: 1

I write in the mornings. I get up every morning at about six in the morning and write until nine, hop in the shower and go to work. Nighttime I usually reserve for re-reading what I've done that morning. I would be lying if I said I stuck to that schedule every single day. Votes: 1

Shakespeare is renewed each time you see it or read it. I've seen 'Midsummer Night's Dream' so many times, and each time it's a little different, or a different line leaps out at me. It's like re-reading a good book over and over, always noticing something you hadn't seen the time before - and that's rare. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I've never read a book or attended a class on screenwriting. I'm not opposed to the idea, but I like what I've got going on naturally and want to protect that. The one question I will ask myself as I'm re-reading a script for the 60th time is, 'Am I entertained? Still?' If the answer is 'yes,' I'll assume other people will be, too. Votes: 1

Books worth reading are worth re-reading. Votes: 0

You're either reading a book or you're not. Votes: 0

You're never alone when you're reading a book. Votes: 0

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. Votes: 0

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book. Votes: 0

If you like what you're reading, I probably wrote it. Votes: 0

In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME. Votes: 0

Never loan money, you're not reading or willing to give away. Votes: 0

As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good. Votes: 0

When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page. Votes: 0

If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. Votes: 0

If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book. Votes: 0

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family. Votes: 0

If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help. Votes: 0

When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya! Votes: 0

You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing. Votes: 0

My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book. Votes: 0

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic. Votes: 0

Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. Votes: 0

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side. Votes: 0

When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"? Votes: 0

We get used to things, and we like reading the way we're used to reading. Votes: 0

Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things. Votes: 0

You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you're reading G.K. Chesterton, then you're a Catholic. Votes: 0

Whenever you see someone react to something they're reading on their phone, that's life being lived. Votes: 0

Take Time Out. It's not a real vacation if you're reading email or calling in for messages. Votes: 0

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it. Votes: 0

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube Votes: 0

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube. Votes: 0

When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options. Votes: 0

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being. Votes: 0

If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading. Votes: 0

Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book. Votes: 0

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are. Votes: 0

When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum. Votes: 0

When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done! Votes: 0

I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading. Votes: 0

When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent. Votes: 0

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries. Votes: 0

If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is. Votes: 0

If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is. Votes: 0

I like the idea of reading into people's faces when they're not emoting. Some people are fascinated, some are sympathizing. Votes: 0

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound. Votes: 0

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere. Votes: 0

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday. Votes: 0

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France. Votes: 0

When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens. Votes: 0

if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken. Votes: 0

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen. Votes: 0

I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way Votes: 0

You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want. Votes: 0

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not Votes: 0

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin. Votes: 0

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading. Votes: 0

Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs. Votes: 0

If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in. Votes: 0

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review. Votes: 0

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing. Votes: 0

Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper. Votes: 0

Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really. Votes: 0

I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty. Votes: 0

Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting residue. Votes: 0

If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way. Votes: 0

You can't be real," Delilah murmurs. "Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it? Votes: 0

People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble. Votes: 0

I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence. Votes: 0

What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps. Votes: 0

When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've messed up. Votes: 0

Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you're not there anymore. It's better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal. Votes: 0

More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator. Votes: 0

I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects. Votes: 0

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right. Votes: 0

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to. Votes: 0

Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening. Votes: 0

When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong. Votes: 0

The great thing about reading for Quentin [Tarantino] is you're not reading for him, he's reading with you. So he sits right next to you. Votes: 0

When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier. Votes: 0

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well. Votes: 0

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. Votes: 0

While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up - and they're not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing. Votes: 0

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting. Votes: 0

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper. Votes: 0

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do. Votes: 0

When you're reading the Word of God, you need to let it soak in and let God speak to your heart and let the Holy Spirit work. Votes: 0

If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom. Votes: 0

Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story. Votes: 0

If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it, you're probably a bad actor. Votes: 0

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do. Votes: 0

Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb. Votes: 0

A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death. Votes: 0

Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me. Votes: 0

When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it. Votes: 0

Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal. Votes: 0

Looks aren't a big thing to me. I keep reading these articles in fan magazines about me, and I don't even know who they're talking about. It's boring. Votes: 0

All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job. Votes: 0

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person. Votes: 0

It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract. Votes: 0

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever. Votes: 0

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we're throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives. Votes: 0

I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare. Votes: 0

When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading. Votes: 0

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.' Votes: 0

The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities. Votes: 0

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading. Votes: 0

Sometimes you're reading something, and you don't know it will be important in your life. You're reading this script, and you start to get involved. It's not an intellectual experience. Votes: 0

I want to create this magical moment when a kid is sitting on a parent's lap and they're reading a story together where both the kid and the parent learn. Votes: 0

When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination. Votes: 0

Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time. Votes: 0

I like to think about the bestseller list as, "This is the medicine cabinet of a very sick country." Let me look and see what they're reading that isn't nourishing them. Votes: 0

This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It's mostly pink. If you're reading this book every night for months, something is not right. Votes: 0

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book. Votes: 0

When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don't keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move on to the next chapter to see what happens. Votes: 0

If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible. Votes: 0

Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly. Votes: 0

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time. Votes: 0

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night. Votes: 0

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book. Votes: 0

You can't ever let yourself be thrown by a camera. That's never good for an actor. When you're reading the script, you want to work with someone you trust so there's nothing to worry about. Votes: 0