All Day is a Long Time is a 2022 novel by American writer David Sanchez.

At the time Sanchez was finishing the book he read novels including War and Peace, The Name of the Rose, A Hundred Years of Solitude, and Rabbit, Run.

[1] Sanchez has said "poetic asides" in Rabbit, Run influenced All Day is a Long Time.

[2] In a review published by The Los Angeles Times, Nathan Deuel praised the novel as a "daring and winning debut".

[3] Sanchez was nominated for the Young Lions Fiction Award for the novel.