![A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.](https://quotes.happiom.com/wp-content/uploads/6/richard-flanagan-quotes-36009-a-good-book--leaves-you.png)
A good book … leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.
– Richard Flanagan
Related Quotes:
- To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different. – Johnny Rich
- To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different. – Johnny Rich
- Need’ now means wanting someone else’s money. ‘Greed’ means wanting to keep your own. ‘Compassion’ is when a politician arranges the transfer. – Joseph Sobran
- When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. – Cliff Fadiman
- Manifest of souls;Adventurous soul,Enthusiastic soul, Sound soul,Happy soul,Great soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- We cannot stop wanting. Wanting is the tireless engine of life itself. – Shai Tubali
- Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. – Sylvia Plath
- Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin.Wanting a man who was sin itself. – Elizabeth Hoyt
- But what reality was ever made by realists? – Richard Flanagan
- All life is only allegory and the real story is not here… – Richard Flanagan
- It was as if life could be shown but never explained, and words – all the words that did not say things directly – were for him the most truthful. – Richard Flanagan
- I am part of all that I have met. – Richard Flanagan
- In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss. – Richard Flanagan
- … being true to the multitudes within himself that are one and many. – Richard Flanagan
- Once upon a time…long ago in a far-off place that everyone knows is not here or now or us. – Richard Flanagan
- Once upon a time…long ago in a far-off place that everyone knows is not here or now or us. – Richard Flanagan
- The more people I am with, Dorrigo thought, the more alone I feel. – Richard Flanagan
- Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book – Johnny Rich
- Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
- …if your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale’s head for an afternoon. – Steven Johnson
- Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread. – Ellen Rose
- My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. – Gene Wolfe
- Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them. – Walter Farley
- Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.) – Horace
- Keep your hand moving. (Don’t pause to reread the line you have just written. That’s stalling and trying to get control of what you’re saying.) – Natalie Goldberg
- A blessed companion is a book–a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend…a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own. – Douglas William Jerrold
- Wind is the sacred music of the leaves; wherever and whenever the wind blows, over there leaves start their holy dancing frantically! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- When a friend leaves you, you move on. When a best friend leaves you, part of you is gone – Misti Hemlock
- I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book – that one book every writer carries within him – the image of his own soul. – Ignazio Silone
- Every book is a great action and every great action is a book! – Martin Luther
- If you want to see and feel magic first hand, read a book to your kid before bedtime. -”Richard Due – Richard Due
- Everything about riding a bicycle compels you towards beauty. – BikeSnobNYC
- Affliction compels us to recognize as real what we do not think possible. – Simone Weil
- Time and need compels to trust strangers even for a specific time – Tehreem Rahat
- Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence. – George Holyoake
- Sin compels man to do those things that are not pleasing to God – Sunday Adelaja
- What compels me to write now is the same as all those years ago. It is the love of writing and storytelling, driven by a desire to escape. – Fennel Hudson
- Love is active, not passive. It is our love for one another, for Mother Earth, for our fellow creatures that compels us to act on their behalf. – Laurence Overmire
- Fear breeds cowardice, and cowardice compels bravery. – Ogwo David Emenike
- The ambition of men compels them to break even the most heartfelt vows. – AH Septimius