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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.

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.

If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed.

I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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.

Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.