Book Repetition Quotes

I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic!

Reading should be a repeat performance.

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before.

Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to sleep. I get letters saying 'I have read your book seventeen times.' If you're an adult novelist and you get that letter, you should be afraid. You're being stalked. Kids always read them seventeen times!

I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.

I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

I always have the impression that I write the same book.