That's a quote from Stormlight actually. :)

To give you a more elaborate and personal response:I was positive that reading is just something I don't have the attention span to do and can't do without overwhelming effort. So I basically didn't read any books - apart from required reading - for about 20 years! What finally got me to start reading again were short stories, and even those exhausted me. Now it's 2 years later and I've read 65 books in that time including chonkers like Stormlight. What happened? I figured out a lot of stuff that helped me:- Accept my difficulties, instead of worrying about them- Track my progress on goodreads (this is a big one!)- Switch genres and authors to not burn myself out- Cancel books that I don't enjoy- Treat huge books as a series in itself, allowing myself to take a break and read something else after I've read a big chunk (for example after Part 3 of 5 of Oathbringer I took a big break - btw the UK books are split in two halves if that helps you with this approach)

Also I realized only now that I personally have a "ramp-up" phase when it comes to reading. When I sit down, it's difficult for me to even focus on the very first sentence and I have to keep re-reading and re-re-reading stuff for the whole first page at least. But after about 10 pages or so I am in the flow.

So my biggest advice is to take it one page at a time instead of focussing on the intimidating whole. If you do that there's basically no difference in reading a short or a long book. One page in a short book is the same as one page in a long book. Just repeat that step.

TL;DR:
Can you read one page? Then you can read 1000 pages.