I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I'd get distracted and follow a link to a long magazine article about genetically modified wine grapes. Too long, actually, so I'd add...
As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only possible verdicts we can pass on a book are two: this I like; this I don't like. For an adult reader, the possible v...
First, the explosion of life. Then came the celebration. Such as it had been for generations and generations, as long as the eldest of the eldest could remember; as long as the record books had kept steady score. By the time the first buds were edgin...
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
I want to write a book so long that it will take the average person their whole life to read. It will be exactly the same length as the Bible.
Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.
Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
There can be no justice so long as law is absolute. Even life itself is an excercise in exceptions.” “When has justice ever been as simple as a rule-book?” - Riker
I found out a long time ago that if I indulged by stuffing my face with great food, lying about reading books and watching TV or talking on the phone, I was not a happy camper.
As winter approaches - bringing cold weather and family drama - we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth.
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.
'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
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.'
My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.
I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.
My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.
