Attention Quote by William T. Vollmann

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

— Jane Austen

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

— Marco Arment

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to…

— George Saunders

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

— Celia Green

Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.

— Rita Dove

I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of…

— Leni Zumas

If you are careful about the content and writing style, readers will not feel that you are in a hurry.

— Ravi Subramanian

My attention span is very short.

— will.i.am

“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re…

— Stephen King

My mom would always say this thing about writing - and I've taken it into account in a lot of things in my life…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

“Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an impressive word…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

— Shannon Hale