Degrees Quote by Henry Seidel Canby Download Open image “A short story is simplification to the highest degree” — Henry Seidel Canby ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Degrees Highest Short story Simplification Stories
“In the field of technology, simplification is always an enormous advance...” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“To simplify is about enhancing our ability to focus on things that really matter, to deliberately choose our priorities, and to refuse to let… — Carolyn J. Rasmus Copy Share Image
Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“There are no shortcuts in life. The more you want to go higher and higher. The more you will fall down again and again” — Srinivart Copy Share Image
“Simplification is often the difference between doing something you know you should do and putting it off.” — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Resistance to simplification is based on the belief that every additional feature, part, and function represents an improvement.” — Dan Ward Copy Share Image
“For complexity does not inevitably heighten a story's verisimilitude, or its power to convince; sometimes simplicity and economy make for a more vigorous exposition,… — Yan Lianke Copy Share Image
“multiplication is vexation, division is as bad, the rule of three perplexes me and fractions drive me mad! (the story girl)” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The London 'Academy' has seen fit recently to scoff at the critics who have been exercising themselves ove rthe so-called art of the Short… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again. — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
“There must always be a fringe of the experimental in literature--poems bizarre in form and curious in content, stories that overreach for what has… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
“Good writing is always a breaking of the soil, clearing away prejudices, pulling up of sour weeds of crooked thinking, stripping the turf so… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in public the… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
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By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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