“All good books are about everything, abbreviated.”— Andrew Smith Related Quotes “I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.”— Wis?awa Szymborska “There is no literature anymore, there are just single books that arrive in bookstores, just as letters, newspapers, advertising pamphlets arrive in mailboxes.”— Tõnu Õnnepalu “It’s my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I’ve written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don’t know.”— Don DeLillo