Quotes About Concise

Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.

Try to leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

I'm the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.

I've gone after stuff that is short and highly appealing.

But the shortest works are always the best.

When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!

I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one.

I apologize for the length of this letter. If I had had more time, it would have been shorter.

Goethe is always pithy.

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.

Sometimes I tend to think in very methodical, very concise terms.

You will not see that desire begets love, until it all flames into one concise and metallic blaze.

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. [...] That state of mind is partly aesthetic. You have to be trying to produce something of worth, beauty and elegance. Do you plan to settle for ugly and uncouth? Do you want to destroy, instead of build?

We like to keep it short. If a story warrants more in-depth coverage, we will do it.

I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

I am someone who doesn't talk more than what is required, but I am also a fun person.

With screenplays, it's all about being as concise as possible. If you have a scene that's set in a bar, you just have to write, 'Interior: Bar.'

During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one of them was very long, for he had the habit of concise expression, but all were written in a spirit of sincerity and with an evident anxiety to make the one he desired as a companion know him as he was.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.