Long Book Quotes - Page 2

• I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write big, big, long books.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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• In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Eye

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• If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

  Penelope Lively

  Book, Reading, People

  Penelope Lively (2011). “How It All Began”, p.164, Penguin UK

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• I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Long, Said

  Garrison Keillor (2004). “Love Me”, p.166, Penguin

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• Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Hands, People

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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