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I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

I often reread books I have written.

I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept.

I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

I will write another book if I feel like it.

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

When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.