Book Quote by William Lee Miller

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

— Jane Austen

[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both backwards and…

— George Saunders

“If a book is well written,I always find it to short.”

— Jane Austen

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”   Abraham Lincoln”

— Rriiver Nyile

A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then move on.

— Fred Kaplan

“Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read,’ and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short…

— Theodore Roosevelt

What was fun for me with this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] was to start out with the principle that went, "We're going to…

— George Saunders

“If a book is well written i would find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

From the beginning [of the Lincoln in the Bardo], I actually had it in mind not to write a novel. I'd kind of gotten…

— George Saunders

What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what…

— David Herbert Donald

“Lincoln's so efficient, especially for a guy who "bends rules".”

— Katie McGarry