“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“I love what I see because one day I will cease to see it. And simply because it is.” — Ricardo Reis Copy Share Image
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity… No inspiration is too noble… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is shaped by two contrary, yet complementary, impulses—one toward brevity, compactness, artful omission; the other toward expansion, amplification, enrichment.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." ( Letter 16 , 1657)” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. And there… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“We have deemed all these words necessary in order to explain that we have been traveling more slowly than was predicted, concision… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
We find that the manager, particularly at senior levels, is overburdened with work. With the increasing complexity of modern organizations and their… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like… — Andre Comte-Sponville Copy Share Image
I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
“The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm too busy and worried to experience the delight while composing my own work, although, of course, I hope… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.” — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
“After a brief moment of splendour, the whole enterprise too a sad turn.” — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
