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I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness. — Charles Darwin

No tea cup is big enough nor book long enough for me to be satisfied. — C.S. Lewis

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Your Story Will Never End As Long As Your Chapters Are Shared — Viola Shipman

For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents' reading. — Glen Duncan

My folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get it right. — Pat Conroy

As long as I'm reading, I'm at home. — George Foreman

A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early — Rupert Brooke

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards. — Antony Beevor

The Dog was a different matter. She was new, or so old that any book that told of her was long since dust. The creature in the fog thought the latter. — Garth Nix

It's not all book signings and publicity photos, you know. You want fame, you have to be prepared for a long hard slog. — J.K. Rowling

Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought to put down. — Sylvia Plath

Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood, — Harper Lee

I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole, I guess I'm satisfied. — William T. Vollmann

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books. — Rick Moody

Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role. — Susan Ertz

Thank You. Life is short and TBR lists are long. I know time is precious and I thank you for spending yours with this book. — Katja Millay

One day, I'd like to write a book about the worst ads ever run, but my fear is that it would be too long. — Seth Godin

Lewis once said, 'You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.' I'd have to agree. Wouldn't you? — Diane Moody

I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good."--Leigh Bardugo — Leigh Bardugo

So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion. — Stephen Hawking

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome. — Robert Louis Stevenson

One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book. — Moby

A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading. — Malcolm Gladwell

As long as you have a book, you are never truly alone. — Sunny Wolfe

When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married. — Stephen King

Just do it. Now. — M. Yeats

Now that all writers everywhere are contractually obligated to blog and tweet all day long, who has time to work on a book? — Dan Savage

The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning. — Matthew Henry

For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy. — Selma Lagerlof

I resisted writing a book for a long time because I didn't want to invade anyone else's privacy or hurt anyone or anger anyone. — Alana Stewart

She had never been without a book for as long as she could remember. An only child never is. — Kate Atkinson

You deserve good sperm. You've waited a long time. — Buffy Andrews

Hello? War and Peace." "You've read War and Peace?" "Um, do I look like I have time to read a book as long as Oksana Chusovitina's career? — Lauren Hopkins

Don't you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you'll soon find its meaning. — Gail Tsukiyama

When you think about 'The Grapes of Wrath,' it's an American masterpiece, and a very long process goes into the making of such a book. — Jay Parini

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book. — Groucho Marx

She didn't know how long they stared at each other, but the look on his face made her forget about the book. — Sasha Summers

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

Tod Goldberg has long been one of the most interesting writers around, and Gangsterland is his biggest and best book so far. — Thomas Perry

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. — Anthony Horowitz

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long. — Charles William Eliot

It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. — Joseph Butler

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time. — Stephen Malkmus

I know the days can get long if you don't have a purpose. — Amy Engel

Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed. — Theodore Roosevelt

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears. — Chuck Palahniuk

I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge. — Alan Lightman

The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is
like a yellow hole ... — Markus Zusak

One always tends to overpraise a long book because one has got through it — E.M.Foster

Proust's is a long book, though, water- skiing permitting, you could get through it in the summer recess — Alan Bennett

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life. — Jane Austen

You have been gifted the Blood Diamond and are surrounded by all that is good. You will not fail as long as you believe." Analea — Kathy Cyr

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first. — Seth Godin

It takes a long time to publish a book. — Kenneth Koch

Redistribution of this e-book is permitted, so long as it is distributed for free. — Andy Weir

I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me. — Jules Shear

Think of this as a short book composed entirely of what I hoped would be a long book's quotable passages. — Sarah Manguso

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western. — Orhan Pamuk

Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length. — Hall Caine

A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone. — John Muir

Still, I believe the first draft of a book - even a long one - should take no more than three months, the length of a season. — Stephen King

Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love. — Brian Selznick

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema. — Mary Garden

How long is forever when you can stop the time for a while to see ... the sunrise? — Haidji

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time. — Rosellen Brown

I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books. — George Pelecanos

My dad is a man that, for as long as I can remember, has kept a book of favorite things his kids say. — Nikki Reed

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, Just as long as he finishes the book. — Roald Dahl

The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew of tobacco to explain it to me. — Huey Long

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. — Norman Macleod

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper. — Roger Ebert

It could be a work of fiction, or history, or both - a long book exploding out of this central place in a hundred directions. — Stephen King

As long as we've got somewhere to sleep, a bowl of cereal, and a coloring book we'll be fine. — Louis Tomlinson

We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book. — Deborah Harkness

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. — Lord Chesterfield

Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages. — Kiese Laymon

I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't get what it doesn't deserve. — Hilary Liftin

While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style. — Norman Mailer

If a book remained roadblocked long enough, it began to decay, to fall apart; all the little tricks and illusions started to show. He — Stephen King

There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book is finished. — Claire Wingfield

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed. — Tom Wolfe

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived. — Edward Abbey

As long as I can buy records and books and maybe some clothes, I'm pretty stoked. I don't need a yacht or anything. — Conor Oberst

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. — Kathleen Norris

Be a life long student, read as many books as possible. — Nelson Mandela

Please read the book slowly because it took me a long time to write. — A.W. Rock

How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. 'The Awful Aunty' took me 10 days. — Tony Ross

The central theme of the book is that prayer is best understood as a long, sometimes perilous, epic journey that eventually leads to triumph. — Gerald L. Sittser

You can cover a great deal of Countries in books. — Andrew Long

As long as Luciano and Arianna were together, he felt that all was right with the world. — Mary Hoffman

I believe in happy endings, and i feel this movie has advanced long enough. — Matthew Quick

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it. — Barbara Kingsolver

I've been a big music guy for a long time and a lot of my books have music in them so I like music analogies. — Charles Soule

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? — John Ruskin

If you spend long enough realizing a character in your book, congratulations, you've made a friend for life. — Michael R. French

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