Character Quote by Tim Leffel

I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never…

— Henry Rollins

Songwriting is telling short stories. But instead of 15 to 20 pages, it's three to five minutes.

— Tyler Childers

Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.'…

— Ramez Naam

I figure 1000 words a day, or four pages, and sometimes I'll write more, but I'll try not to. Because I think you don't…

— Carolyn See

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half…

— Alice Lowe

“Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.”

— Mercedes M. Yardley

In some respects, big ideas can be a bit too big for a short story - especially if you've only got a couple of…

— Alastair Reynolds

When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long.

— Stephen Sondheim

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.

— Don Roff

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those…

— Shelby Foote

I am of the opinion that even if my role is merely 10 minutes long, it needs to leave an impact on the audiences.

— Ananya Panday

Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.

— Jillian Hervey