57 Quotes About Brevity




  • Author Stephen King
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    This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do -- not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad. I figured the shorter the book, the less bullshit."Stephen King, On Writing

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  • Author José Saramago
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    We have deemed all these words necessary in order to explain that we have been traveling more slowly than was predicted, concision is not a definitive virtue, on occasion one loses out by talking too much, it is true, but how much has also been gained by saying more than was strictly necessary.

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  • Author Erik Larson
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    To do our work, we all have to read a mass of papers. While energy has to be spent in looking for the essential points.I ask my colleagues and their staffs to see to it that their reports are shorter.

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