Clever Quote by Winston Graham

What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once, and I'm…

— Herbert Hoover

Inspiration is easy. The hard part is getting the inspiration onto 300 pages in an interesting, cohesive, easy-to-read but hard-to-forget story.

— Janet Evanovich

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

The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can…

— Stephan Pastis

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh,…

— Teju Cole

I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll make an…

— Elmore Leonard

I'm much too egotistical to move outside the acting realm.

— Tamlyn Tomita

My story was that I was egotistical, arrogant, and an absolute jerk to everyone who brags about everything - and I will - but…

— The Miz

You are happiest when you are most humble. You are most miserable when you are egotistical.

— Frederick Lenz

“Mostly, we think that a self-expressive person is egotistical. That may be true but what about someone who refrains from expressing himself to protect…

— Assegid Habtewold

“Of course you're not egotistical. I checked, and you look very humble in all 900 of the selfies you posted on facebook.”

— Sienna McQuillen