A Quote by Trevor McDonald

Life is so short, it seems careless not to use it all.

Trevor McDonald

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Trevor McDonald
Trinidadian - Journalist
Born: August 16, 1939

Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash.

William Faulkner

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Victor Hugo

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

Mario Puzo

Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.

Ernest Hemingway

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life's short, you know? Especially as an athlete. Your career is very short, and you use the opportunities that you have because you're not going to have them again.

Lindsey Vonn

My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

Franz Kafka

I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest.

Nelson DeMille

Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of it. Sid Baxter was generous because he knew that life was long. It went on and on even when you had no use for it anymore. It was happiness, not life, that was short, and when it visited - in the form of a fine evening spent talking with a friend - he honoured it.

Jennifer Donnelly

It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.

Edna Ferber

Life is short. Be of use.

Robin Sharma

People complain that life is short,for me it seems very long.

Alija Izetbegovic

Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.