Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.
Friedrich NietzscheTag: writing expression brevity
Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.
HoratiusTag: brevity
This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do -- not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad. I figured the shorter the book, the less bullshit."
Stephen King, On Writing
Tag: on-writing brevity quotes-for-writers
Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?
Stephen KingTag: dreams brevity sweet brief
My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time,
Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief.
Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.
Louise BrooksTag: paraphrased on-writing brevity
The definition of Brevity: That which people believe would be a virtue - in me!
Greg CurtisThe present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us like the swift flight of a sparrow through the mead-hall where you sit at supper in winter, with your Ealdormen and thanes, while the fire blazes in the midst and the hall is warmed, but the wintry storms of rain or snow are raging abroad. The sparrow, flying in at one door and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry tempest, but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, passing from winter to winter again. So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what is to follow or what went before we know nothing at all.
BedeTag: life happiness religion afterlife brevity agnosticism
To write good poems is the secret of brevity.
Dejan StojanovicTag: wisdom poetry writing literature secret brevity quotes thoughts poems poetry-quotes quotes-to-live-by literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic
A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.
George SaundersTag: books definition novel short-stories brevity short-story short
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