Jane Austen — If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
If a book is well written, I always find it too short.Jane Austen
Attributed to Jane Austen (correspondence; no specific letter identified)
The compliment is disguised as a complaint. Good writing does not feel like effort; it feels like time disappearing, and its only fault is ending.
Chase that feeling in English. When a page stops feeling like study and starts feeling too short, you have crossed into reading — and reading is where fluency lives.
Words that widen the world
Holding the attention completely.
Synonyms: engrossing, gripping, captivating
The book was absorbing from page one.
Composed with skill and clarity.
Synonyms: polished, skillful, elegant
A well written page never drags.
Common questions
It means genuinely good writing is so enjoyable that it always seems to end too soon.
An English novelist of the early 19th century, author of 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Emma'.
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