Zitat des Tages über Kürze / Brevity:
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled 'The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.'
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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.
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it's something that I quite enjoy attempting to do.
Writing is harder than acting. I enjoy acting for just the brevity with which you can be in the experience of doing it. Writing is kind of more satisfying in that you're creating a world and doing something that feels bigger, but it's very time consuming and has a higher threshold for failure.