Famous quotes containing the words short and/or writing:
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I’ve tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I’m afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)