A Quote by Taylor Caldwell

I often reread books I have written — © Taylor Caldwell
I often reread books I have written
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 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.
Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written books and badly written books. There are fun books and boring books. All of these distinctions are vastly more important than the distinction between the literary and the non-literary.
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
I reread "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton, the father of all sports books. Aside from that, and books like?"Out of Their League" by Dave Meggyesy, sports books generally pull their punches.
I don't reread my books.
As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.
I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.
I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.
I wonder if Karl Ove Knausgård would've written the same books today had been using Twitter. It wasn't around when he was writing those books. Those books were written during the age of the blog, with its big verbiage. The landscape has completely changed today.
Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much of my life to writing, and have therefore neglected other aspects of my being.
Political books are so often written from the perspective of the politicians, not from the point of view of the people.
The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds
When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them.
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.
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