Dave Morris Quotes

Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!

I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.

I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books. It would take me a year to get through one of them.

It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

I don't like to read long books.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

I also really like to read good books and I don't have enough time to do it. So it's really hard for me to imagine willingly submitting myself to a trilogy of books that I've been told are at the fourth grade reading level which isn't a very nice thing to say but.

A reviewer's lot is not always an easy one. I can remember flogging myself to finish Harold Brodkey's 'The Runaway Soul' despite the novel's consummate, unmitigated tedium.

I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.

I am trying to give the best performance possible in 400 pages. I want readers to be scared; I want them to be moved. Entertainment doesn't necessarily mean something trivial, but it does mean people wanting to get to the end of a book.

All the Midkemia stories are part of a 'history of an imaginary place,' so I've always known the cycle covered five rift wars. I just got to the end after 30 books. So there was no particular inspiration, save it was time to finish the whole shebang.

My parents were enthusiastic fans of 'Sammy's Hill.' But they think 'Sammy's House' is a better book.

Book four is tentatively titled 'The Skull Throne, ' and book five is 'The Core .' It's kind of hard to talk much about them without giving away things from 'Daylight War,' however.

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.

I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.

'A Storm of Swords' is a massive volume, and it seemed like it would be shortchanging it to try to cram it into ten episodes.

Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk of writing.

I don't like the Sunday newspapers - I read them because I have to. 'Sunday Times,' 'Telegraph,' 'Independent' on Sunday - I find them heavy and too much! I prefer 'The Economist.'

You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.

I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole life.

I just can't read, the way other people can, these tediously elaborated books.

My dyslexia means I can't read for long periods or the letters start moving around on the page, giving me headaches.

I haven't read more than two pages, but my mother is a George Martin super fan.

Double vision makes reading the prompter very tricky.