Books Quote by William Gaddis

In real life, writers tend to be quite boring, but in our books, we're having exciting adventures all the time.

— Ian Rankin

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to…

— Susie Bright

It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the…

— Paul Theroux

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with…

— John Scalzi

The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or…

— Molly Ringwald

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They…

— Cornelia Funke

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to…

— Dean Koontz

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

— Henry David Thoreau

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the…

— Arthur Smith

As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read…

— Jonathan Lethem

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his…

— Stephen King

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're…

— Robert Cormier