On Rereading Quotes

“...rereading works that I originally read, for pleasure, in the excited atmosphere of contemporaneity, [I] have reread them purposefully to assess their power, given the passage of time. (pg. 127)”
― Patricia Meyer Spacks, On Rereading

“Rereading does not lend itself to imperialistic interpretations that assume command of textual territory in the name of some over-riding truth. On the contrary, rereading insists on multiplicity of meaning, predicted as it is on awareness of the different revelations implicit in different encounters with a single book. (page 84)”
― Patricia Meyer Spacks, On Rereading