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• I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Brevity, Aesthetic

• Short stories consume you faster. They’re connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they’re also a total joy.

  Ali Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Brevity, Faster

• Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes ‘good’ from ‘bad’ luck.

  Karen Russell

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  Tags in Brevity, Shape

• It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement.

  Horace

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Brevity, Liar

• In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

  Horace

  Tags in Brevity, Obscure

• I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

  Horace

  Tags in Brevity, Brief, Obscure

• Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Aim, Brevity

• With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

  Walter Horatio Pater

  Tags in Brevity, Hardly, Theories

• Never be so brief as to become obscure.

  Hosea Ballou

  Tags in Brevity, Brief, Obscure

• Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

  Hosea Ballou

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Brevity, Religious, Parents, Correction

• The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

  Blaise Pascal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Brevity, Simply

• Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

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  Tags in Brevity, Good

• Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

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  Tags in Brevity, Good, Great

• What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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  Tags in Body, Brevity

• Good things, when short, are twice as good.

  Baltasar Gracián

  Topics in Advice

  Tags in Brevity, Writers And Writing

• To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself…Anybody can have ideas–the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

  Mark Twain

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  Tags in Brevity, Writers And Writing, Writing

• I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English – it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don’t let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don’t mean utterly, but kill most of them – then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Brevity, Writers And Writing, Writing

• A short saying often contains much wisdom.

  Sophocles

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Brevity, Writers And Writing, Quotations