Accomplish Quote by Emily Gould

Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question “Why should I buy this book?

— Guy Kawasaki

Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.'…

— Ramez Naam

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

— Walter Jon Williams

Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get…

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing…

— Rebecca Serle

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

— Marco Arment

Essayists write at a length that enables them, within a year, to explore a number of topics, whereas in a book, they'll likely only…

— Marty Nemko

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

— Jane Austen

“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

The requests for blurbs seem to come in waves. I'm not sure what precipitates them. I think it must be excruciating for editors to…

— Miriam Toews

Generally, my notes and outlines comprise more words than my novels. I suppose that's one reason I'm a comparatively slow writer, something that has…

— Frank Peretti