I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book.
Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.
I always save a huge book for a flight, because then you read it at both airports and on the plane and by the time you get home you're a quarter of the way through and it doesn't feel so unmanageable any more.
I'm still happy with the way Einstein's Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words. That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don't think it could happen with a long book.
I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.
