Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (4 September 1929); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
“While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.”
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“Then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may;
With life so short 'twere wrong to lose a day.”
Dum licet, in rebus jucundis vive beatus;
Vive memor quam sis aevi brevis.
Book II, satire viii, line 96 (trans. Conington)
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
“Then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may;
With life so short 'twere wrong to lose a day.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Dum licet, in rebus jucundis vive beatus;
Vive memor quam sis aevi brevis.
Book II, satire viii, line 96 (trans. Conington)
Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Satires
“The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter — but it's a damn good book anyway.”
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
Review blurb for the first edition of The Quantum Universe http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521564573 (1987)
“The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
“Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
Donald Miller book Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Letter to Harrison Blake (16 November 1857)
Context: Let me suggest a theme for you: to state to yourself precisely and completely what that walk over the mountains amounted to for you, — returning to this essay again and again, until you are satisfied that all that was important in your experience is in it. Give this good reason to yourself for having gone over the mountains, for mankind is ever going over a mountain. Don't suppose that you can tell it precisely the first dozen times you try, but at 'em again, especially when, after a sufficient pause, you suspect that you are touching the heart or summit of the matter, reiterate your blows there, and account for the mountain to yourself. Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.