Damian Lewis
Actor
"We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history."
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Rereading
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Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts."
Lewis Buzbee
Author
"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."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only."
Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"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."
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"Most of my reading is rereading."
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"Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were."
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"I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing."
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"I'm used to rereading e-mails, even, before sending them - a bit compulsive. So this is high speed roller coaster for me!"
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