If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books! — Keegan Allen Copy Share Image
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books. — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“When a first date really works, it works like this: You feel the thrill of opening to the first page of a… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I love to read long books. I enjoy experiencing that extension. But it's not something I feel comfortable with and not something… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
When I used to play golf. It's a terrible miserable game. It's incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Recently, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke talked about the ways the lives of human beings will be changed in the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Early on, I settled on the first-person strategy as a way to deal with exposition and world-description issues. As long as the… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“But really, that is kind of silly,' Abigail tried to explain. 'I mean, a book is much less personal than a programmed… — William Sleator Copy Share Image
“I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say. — Celia Green Copy Share Image
I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
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People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
I actually pushed the boundaries on how long a book like this [The Thorn and the Blossom] can be. The original plan… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Work ethic is one of the biggest things my father taught me. That man worked like every day, every day, 9 to… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
I'm still happy with the way Einstein's Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
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