> "A good author can completely encode an entire world full of people on 300 pages of black and white text. And when they do it well, it literally never expires

> "A good author can completely encode an entire world full of people on 300 pages of black and white text. And when they do it well, it literally never expires. " that is quite similar to how I view it also. And good authors are able to describe so well human behavior, that it will make it worth the read.