Quotes About Conciseness

It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.

I just like it when I can understand things, and the simpler it is, the easier it is to understand.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Simplicity is the key.

A short story can be packed with meaning and impact, with the concentrated density of a collapsed star, but should preferably also have a kind of elegant simplicity.

What I like about Bre.ad is the simplicity of it. When you can explain it to people, like 'five-second billboards in front of a link shortener,' it makes a lot of sense.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

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

There's writing power in one word sentences and one sentence paragraphs. Wise authors use them. -Judith Briles

To say a few words with great meaning is better than to ramble on with nothing of value." I

Oaths, in my opinion, infernal or not, ought to be short.

That's all he said?' Mrs. Royle demanded. 'He's not one for lengthy explanations,' Honoria said. 'Powerful men do not explain their actions,' Cecily announced dramatically.

I like being to the point. It is not my nature to talk too much or indulge in loose talk. I like being brief, and beyond a certain point, I have nothing to say.

Because I come from the place of interviewing, I know how to answer a question giving you what you need to hear and not a minute more.

The man who really knows can tell all that is transmissible in a very few words. The economic problem of the teacher (of violin or of language or of anything else) is how to string it out so as to be paid for more lessons.

Incompetence will show in the use of too many words. The reader's first and simplest test of an author will be to look for words that do not function; that contribute nothing to the meaning OR that distract from the MOST important factor of the meaning to factors of minor importance.

Being forced to write clearly means, first, you have to think clearly.

If this book were limited to 140 pages, it would end here.

I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." ( Letter 16 , 1657)