Quotes About Concise

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

She says what she has to say, and no more. May there be many like her,

Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.

Omit the non-essential.

He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.

My favorite albums are really short.

I always imagine people give succinct answers. I have no prepared thoughts on what I do.

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

The greatest writers can project their message in the fewest of words.

Verbose is not a synonym for literary.

and after the beep I leave a concise message with exactly the information a therapist wants—name, one-liner about why I'm calling, and return phone number. I'm doing well until, thinking it might get me in to see him sooner, I add that I'm also a therapist, but my voice cracks as I say the word therapist. Mortified, I cover with a cough and quickly hang up.

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

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

I'm into short emails.

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

Speak less and say more

Sono convinto che scrivere prosa non dovrebbe essere diverso dallo scrivere poesia; in entrambi i casi è ricerca d'una espressione necessaria, unica, densa, concisa, memorabile.

Tragedy has company, as someone aside from me probably said at some point. I

Sorry this is such a long letter, but I didn't have time to write a shorter one.

I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

To say more, is to say less.

It was laconic, but it was true. As soon as you started to put more words in, you came to unreason.