Aesthetic Quote by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— Jane Austen

So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those…

— Philip K. Dick

I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.

— Dick Dale

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf

“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which…

— Sven Birkerts

People would much rather argue their own visions and conceptions about a book than engage in a dialogue with the author, because the author…

— Chris Claremont

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it…

— Umberto Eco

“Why not admit that my dissatisfaction reveals an excessive ambition, perhaps a megalomaniac delirium? For the writer who wants to annul himself in order…

— Italo Calvino

I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.

— Celia Green

“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and”

— Neil Gaiman

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire…

— Al Seckel