Books Quote by E.M. Forster

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

— Anonymous

“a lot of books to read but time is limited”

— Kohta Hirano

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

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

— E. M. Forster

“When people ask me how come I have written over three hundred books my response to them is take advantage of time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think.”

— Chris Brady

“Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.”

— Michael Krüger

“Who says only long tedious novels are good to read when all that can be summed up in one line”

— Priyansh Shah

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

“A book is not complete till it reaches a reader.”

— Aman Jassal

“If a book is well written i would find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

“They believed all books should be read, for as long as the reader liked.”

— Alice Hoffman