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Long Book Quotes by Vikram Seth
- I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
- But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up…
More Long Book Quotes
- I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say. — Celia Green
- In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long. — Luc de Clapiers
- Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need… — Erica Jong
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books! — Keegan Allen
- Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death. — Peter Ackroyd
- I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last… — Seth Godin
- One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. — E. M. Forster
- I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books. — Vikram Seth
- 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