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David Remnick quote: "You know what writers say about their long books: If I had..."
You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long. David Remnick
I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first. Seth Godin
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary. Jorge Luis Borges
Garrison Keillor quote: "I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed..."
I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book. Garrison Keillor
Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true. J. R. R. Tolkien
By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and... Alexis de Tocqueville
During the twenty years of Odesseus' absence, the people of Ithaca retained many recollections of him but never felt nostalgia for him. Whereas Odysseus did suffer nostalgia, and remembered almost nothing. .....For four long books of the Odyssey he had retraced in detail his adventures before the dazzled Phaeacians. But in Ithaca he was not a stranger, he was one of their own, so it never occurred to anyone to say, 'Tell us! Milan Kundera
E. M. Forster quote: "One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has..."
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. E. M. Forster
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently. A. N. Wilson
The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story. Donna Tartt
E. M. Forster quote: "Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time);..."
Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain. E. M. Forster
Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums. Beverley Nichols
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West. E. M. Forster
Long after Pacifiique's gay whistle had faded into the phantom of music and then into silence far up under the maples of Lover's Lane Anne stood under the willows, tasting the poignant sweetness of life when some great dread has been removed from it. The morning was a cup filled with mist and glamor. In the corner near her was a rich surprise of new-blown, crystal-dewed roses. The trills and trickles of song from the birds in the big tree above her seemed in perfect accord with her mood. A... L. M. Montgomery
Bern Williams quote: "Books had instant replay long before televised sports."
Books had instant replay long before televised sports. Bern Williams

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