#short

You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better! ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#ask #better #day #made #more

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#certain #heroes #i #i believe #measure

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#course #dead #democracy #else #everything

On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise. ↗

— John James Audubon

#constantly #deck #exercise #forcing #however

He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film. ↗

— Bille August

#amputated #considers #fanny #film #his

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#commonly #fairer #foulest #life #much

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#me #much #novel #short #short story

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#century #dense #filled #helium #i

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly. ↗

— Edward Albee

#come #correctly #distance #go #his

People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#books #exception #make #normally #people