Short Writing

Famous quotes containing the words short and/or writing:

    You shall love peace as a means to new wars—and the short peace more than the long one.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents. Indeed, I sometimes sank down among the documents and said to myself, I can’t improve on these.
    Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)