#volume

I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface. ↗

— James Loeb

#after #early #half #i #inconsiderable

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ↗

— Don Marquis

#canyon #down #dropping #echo #grand

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. ↗

— Herman Melville

#choose #enduring #ever #flea #great

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#build #cube #entire #entire world #exists

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#best #books #carefully #included #mature

I feel 'The Night Circus' has a complete story arc in one book. I like it as a single volume. It feels complete to me, and I wouldn't want to stretch it out into something it's not. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#book #circus #complete #feel #feels

I'm working on something that's not yet novel-shaped but is something of a film-noir-flavored 'Alice in Wonderland.' It will also very likely be a single volume story and not the start of a series. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#also #i #likely #series #single

If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes. I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#best #broken #complicated #composing #could

From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#chinese #fourth #investment #korea #perspective

If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't. ↗

— Thomas Perry

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