I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.
Dick Cavett
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to... →
Raymond Chandler
Life's too short to just breeze on by.
David Chang
I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus.
A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that... →
Dan Chaon
I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.
William Merritt Chase