Halfway Quote by Len Wein

Do not try to make your headline so short that it fails to express your idea properly. It's more important to say what you…

— John Caples

There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their…

— Constance Hale

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

— Lynn Abbey

With comedies, often shorter is better. You don't want to outstay your welcome.

— Christopher Miller

Developing a full length feature is much longer process than developing a short. With features you're typically dealing with more characters, plot, emotion, story…

— Nathan Greno

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have…

— Jane Campion

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get…

— Colum McCann

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to…

— Nicholas Royle

I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest.

— Nelson DeMille

Shorth is better than length.

— Dr. Seuss

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

— Marco Arment

Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description.…

— Brad Thor