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- I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say. — Celia Green
- 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
- Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books! — Keegan Allen
- 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
- Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his… — E. M. Forster
- 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
- 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
- You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long. — David Remnick
- I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in… — Maria Semple
- By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal… — Alexis De Tocqueville