“Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.”

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”

“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.”

“Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader ("Good Readers and Good Writers", p. 3).”

“My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.”

“Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.”

“Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.”

“She was sitting there beside the bookcase, trying to read, in a growing panic of self-consciousness. Why? Because reading presupposed a future.”

“Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?”

“Who is the third who walks always beside you
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you”