Book Complexity Quotes

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I'm not caring about the people anymore.

I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books. It would take me a year to get through one of them.

I just can't read, the way other people can, these tediously elaborated books.

No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else?

If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!

Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.

It takes me about three years to write a book. They're very complex, and they take a lot of research, but also because the more popular your books get, the more popular you get, and people want to haul you off and look at you.

Actually,the nightmarish thought occurred to me that with electronic delivery of books becoming a norm, soon writers may be expected to provide several versions of their book, ranging from the Easy to the Complex, and buyers will choose what they're in the mood for with the click of a button! I do hope not.