57 Quotes About Brevity
- Author Leo X. Robertson
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The lesson here is not to take Camus to the beach.
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- Author P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
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Brevity makes us fall in class and gravity makes us fall in mass
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- Author Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.
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- Author Stephen King
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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
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- Author Sarah Morgan
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I know you're scared, but doing something even though it scares you is the definition of brave.
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- Author Ahmed Mostafa
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No sooner did we start than it all came to an end.
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- Author Shirley Conran
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Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
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- Author José Saramago
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We have deemed all these words necessary in order to explain that we have been traveling more slowly than was predicted, concision is not a definitive virtue, on occasion one loses out by talking too much, it is true, but how much has also been gained by saying more than was strictly necessary.
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- Author Erik Larson
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To do our work, we all have to read a mass of papers. While energy has to be spent in looking for the essential points.I ask my colleagues and their staffs to see to it that their reports are shorter.
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