Book Quote by Celia Green Download Open image “I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.” — Celia Green ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Long Long book Writing
Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say. — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer. — Elizabeth Berg 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
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books. — Mark Z. Danielewski 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 big, big,… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it. — Celia Green Copy Share Image
In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
The charms of money are distinctly under-represented in literature. There are no songs or poems extolling its virtues. This seems on the face of… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences. — Celia Green Copy Share Image
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. — Celia Green Copy Share Image
It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs. — Celia Green Copy Share Image
When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share. — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail. — Celia Green Copy Share Image
It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one. — Celia Green Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
