Book Quote by Dean Koontz

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort…

— Anonymous

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

— E. M. Forster

I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.

— Elizabeth Berg

I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into.

— Stephen Cole

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

— Jane Austen

Nearly all novels are too long.

— Rose Macaulay

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

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

— Anonymous

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to…

— Susie Bright

More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.

— Ashleigh Brilliant