Long Books Quotes

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'

If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.

Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!

I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.

My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.

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.

It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

I don't like to read long books.

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

But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books.

Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones' until I saw the bookshelf sagging under the burden of those other volumes.

You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.

I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in foreign airports. All of which call for escaping into really long books.

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don't exist.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.