Quotes About Conciseness

The danger with using too many words is that your statement may open up too many story loops.

If you confuse, you'll lose.

A one-liner is a new and improved way to answer the question "What do you do?" It's more than a slogan or tagline; it's a single statement that helps people realize why they need your products or services.

In your marketing copy, don't be cute, be clear.

The explanatory paragraph is a great way to accomplish both.

WHEN YOU FEEL CONFUSED, CLARIFY YOUR MESSAGE

It's a long story. I'll make it short as I can.

Please note that most such cause-effect story repairs can be handled in a few words. The key point here is not to exhaust the reader with great details, but simply to make sure that author-inserted causes are shown to have effects, and author-desired effects can be seen to have had causes.

A really perfect poem has an infinitely small vocabulary.

First Principle: Have a point and make it by means of the best word.

La verdadera brevedad es saber callar cuando no hay nada que decir.

Brevity is the soul of the prayer-meeting.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

You don't have to say everything to say something.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

One simple question, requires one simple answer.

You only need two or three details to set the scene. More than that and you can lose the reader's interest.

For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them.

Why does the person with the least to say usually take the longest to say it?

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

Life is too short for a long story.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.