Quotessence
Home / Topics / Long Book Quotes

Long Book Quotes

Browse 27 quotes about Long Book.

Related topics

Writing

Long Book Quotes

“Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes from voraciously reading books—long books that require focused attention. It comes from meaningful discourse with other intellectually curious people. It comes from listening and asking good questions.”

PeopleLongBookReadingLinesAttentionCreativityListeningAskingFocusedMeaningfulCuriousReading BooksDiscourseDeep ThoughtStarbucksGood QuestionsLong BookFocused Attention
Author:Joshua Rogers
Create image

“When I used to play golf. It's a terrible miserable game. It's incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water...You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.”

WritingLongBookPlayUsedNextGamesBitsWaterMagicTerribleShotsGolfWoodsHolesHorribleMiserableNext TimeFrustratingLong Book
Author:Alan Lightman
Create image

“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.”

ThinkingWayWritingLongStillsBookDreamInspirationHappensFeltStrangeCreatingHearingLong Book
Author:Alan Lightman
Create image

“Work ethic is one of the biggest things my father taught me. That man worked like every day, every day, 9 to 5, well 9 to 9 in his case, but he would treat it as if it was a 9 to 5 job. He would clock in. He would put in his hours. That is how you can write those you know incredibly long books that unfortunately there is not much market for anymore, but that is also how you can explore an idea on a deeper level than we get in our media surface these days. It's tough.”

MenWritingLongBookFatherHoursEthicsToughClockWork EthicLong Book
Author:John Buffalo Mailer
Create image

“But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.”

IfsLongStillsBookHateTurnsSocialRoomsEffortEnemyMinutesBearsFuneralScarMoronInterruptionsMiddlemarchLong BookGrowling
Author:Vikram Seth
Create image