Boast Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no…

— Ezra Pound

Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers.

— Andrew Wylie

It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds…

— Christopher Bollen

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

— Philip Roth

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.

— Steve Earle

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.

— Chetan Bhagat

One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty that people…

— Thomas Cahill

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

— Robert Crais

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just…

— Jodi Picoult

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't really care…

— Derek Walcott

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

— Karl Kraus