I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
There is so little time for us all, I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible. Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.
I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.
I have a short attention span.
There is so little time for us all; I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible.
Life is too short. I don't have time to speak slowly.
Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.
I have not been briefed.