Quotes About Conciseness

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them.

Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it's three pages long, and some people write a thank you note, and it's five sentences - that's me. I like to pare away words because I don't want to waste anyone's time.

Audiences want to feel something intense, quickly, without wasting a lot of time.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.

My fault now is making my plays too short.

The difference between 'lighght' and another type of poem with more words is that it doesn't have a reading process. Even a five-word poem has a beginning, middle, and end. A one-word poem doesn't. You can see it all at once. It's instant.

As coaches, we have to give a lot of information. Too much, I think.

I kind of hate over-explanation in comics.

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.

I like short records in general that you can swallow in one sitting.

If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.

I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

I was sorry I had missed it because talk by those two is always worth hearing. You get good examples of how much a man can say in a few words and also of how little he can say in a lot of words.

El matemático francés Blaise Pascal describió muy bien este problema en su célebre frase: "Lamento haber escrito esta carta tan larga, pero no tenía tiempo para hacerla más corta".

Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak words that matter.

I have come here to relate something to you, Father.' 'Then relate it briefly and concisely. I haven't all morning to listen to you chatter.

Strive from the outset to express yourself with such clarity that a bright twelve-year-old would understand you. Any fool can make it complicated: it takes focus to make it simple.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.

I like slang words, straight to the point. I like words of wisdom, straight to the heart.