Quotes About Conciseness

What I know about love, I can write on the head of a matchstick.

No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

The Georgian had used more words in 5 minutes than Wyatt had spoken during 1872 and 1873 combined.

I think perhaps a syllable maximum should be set for some people and, I'm sorry, but rather a low one.

Talk slow, clear, and smart. If you can't do all three, keep your mouth shut.

The simpler you keep it, the stronger it gets.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.1

Get rid of half the words on each page, then get rid of half of what's left. —KRUG'S THIRD LAW OF USABILITY Of

As Albert Einstein liked to say, everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Rule Seventeen. Omit needless words! Omit needless words! Omit needless words!

I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.

Considerations of Aesthetics and Fascination: You should strive for brevity, which is concise and efficient expression, as well as beauty, which is the melodic or poetic aspect of your language (at all the requisite levels of analysis). Finally, you should not be bored, or boring. If you are bored while writing, then, most importantly, you are doing it wrong, and you will bore your reader.

THE ELEVATOR TEST Know your solution (or your product or business) so thoroughly that you can explain it clearly and precisely to your client (or customer or investor) in 30 seconds. If you can do that, then you understand what you're doing well enough to sell your solution.

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.

Where Americans might coo over a child's most inane remark to boost his confidence, middle-class French parents teach their kids to be concise and amusing, to keep everyone listening.

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

Cinema is incredibly concise.

Small is good. For one thing, small projects can be simple.

And let me make the radical statement that I don't believe that you can say something profound in the 140 characters that make up a tweet.

Fatal Vision was a very successful book that a lot of people like, but the problem with it is that you could edit out 75% of the book without losing a single fact or insight.

As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.