Adjectives Quote by Elinor Glyn

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Nearly all novels are too long.

— Rose Macaulay

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

— Agatha Christie

It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels…

— Graham Swift

If you are careful about the content and writing style, readers will not feel that you are in a hurry.

— Ravi Subramanian

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

— Marco Arment

How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third…

— Ian Mcewan

“Even so-called 'short novels' are pretty long and can take several hours to read, so make sure you stay hydrated. I like to keep…

— Richard Ayoade

They write them long because they can't write them short.

— Raymond Chandler

“Writers pay a lot of attention to wordage, because some publishers seem to care more about length than about quality and will automatically reject…

— Piers Anthony

I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless…

— Arnold Bennett

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

— Winston Churchill