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“The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.”

Years Wells Two Thousand Pages Two Years Manuscripts Rift

“When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.”

World Writing Two War Lines Five Thousand Pages War Of The Worlds Gas Concentration Camps Chamber Second World War Concentration Camp Deportation Gas Chambers

Author:Jean-Marie Le Pen

“I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War... If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what's called a detail.”

“There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing how the participants decided to begin four hundred years of wars, and then several thousand pages devoted to the routes, battles and other events which make up the "history" of the Crusades.”

Years War Three Four Events Battle Thousand Pages Hundred Decided Instance Devoted Volume Routes Describing Participants Crusades

Book:The New Psychohistory

Source: The New Psychohistory

“Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment.”

Should Process Thousand Taxes Pages Passing Passings Reform Code Manipulation Amendments Legislation Paradigm Irs Tax Reform

Author:Jim Bridenstine

“It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea out of nowhere, and his characters out of nothing, and catch words as they fly, and nail them to the page. The reader has something to go by and somewhere to start from, given to him freely and with great generosity by the writer. And still the reader feels free to find fault.”

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Author:Fay Weldon

“Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.”

Men Book War Lost Century He Man Thousand Pages Men And Women Saved Quotations Motto Maxims Collectors Quip

Author:Willis Regier

“Naked Lunch was from about a thousand pages of material. A lot of it overflowed, then, into the cut-up trilogy including Nova Express.”

Cutting Materials Thousand Pages Including Naked Lunch Trilogies Novas

Author:William S. Burroughs

“I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand.”

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Author:William Golding

“There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement for his story, because most people aren't going to read a thousand-page book. But I feel like the rise and fall and the work [Mayer] produced - not just the movies, but the memos, the volume of writing - he's just so passionate, and that's really exciting.”

People Feels Writing Book Stories Fall Thousand Pages Argument Exciting Passionate Fantastic Volume Advertisements Rise And Fall Memos Mayer

Author:Karina Longworth

“Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out again for One Thousand Gifts on the show and graciously asked a few questions on camera. Indebted to her and the people who read and looked for Jesus in the pages and shared the hope and joy of Him - right where they are.”

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Author:Ann Voskamp

“Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.”

Book Levels Reader Thousand Pages Deeper Compliment One Thousand Gifts

Author:Ann Voskamp

“Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.”

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Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.”

Two Country Fine Thousand Taxes Pages Obamacare Mandates Fees Free Country

Author:Paul Ryan

“I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and young, girl and boy, man and animal. I pledge to use books to open windows to a thousand different worlds and to the thousand different faces of my own world. I pledge to use books to make my universe spread much wider than the world I live in every day. I pledge to treat my books like friends, visiting them all from time to time and keeping them close.”

“I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.”

World Want Writing Next Space Honor Thousand Ten Findings Pages Reflection Notes Bottom Ashamed Journal

Book:Cosmopolis: A Novel

Source: Cosmopolis: A Novel

“I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.”

Philosophy Use Four Theory Thousand Prove Pages Hundred Smarter Lit Continental

Author:David Foster Wallace

“I like big books and I cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny That when a kid walks in with The Name of the Wind Like a hardbound brick of win. Story bling. Wanna swipe that thing Cause you see that boy is speeding Right through the book he’s reading. I’m hooked and I can’t stop pleading. Wanna curl up with that for ages, All thousand pages. Reviewers tried to warn me. But with that plot you hooked Me like Bradley. Ooh, crack that fat spine. You know I wanna make you mine. This book is stella ’cause it ain’t some quick novella.”

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