Quotes About Omit

I try to leave out the parts that people skip.

Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.

One method of economy is 'leaving out' - firstly, everything that by the writer's standards is irrelevamt, in the second place everything that is obvious, i.e. which the reader can and should supply out of his own imagination. 'The more bloody good stuff you cut out the more bloody good your novel will be,' Hemingway advised a young writer.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

What I cannot love, I overlook.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification — the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.

Omit needless words.

Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit.

To plan a book — or an escape — the first thing to know is what to exclude.