Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.
Men who have much to say use the fewest words.
As a writer, you're always trying to say the best thing. You're always thinking about what's the best thing to say, and what's the hardest way to say it, and what's the best line? Sometimes the best line is the simplest line. Sometimes the best line is the line that evokes more feeling than actual wordsmithing.
Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.
There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.
There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.'
When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
The language of football is universal. You don't need to speak the local lingo in order to be able to communicate with a ball.
The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!
There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.
Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.
I believe most things can be said in a few lines.
Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the meat of what you're saying.
Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct
Uncommon things must be said in common words.
Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.
Do not put cleverness in front of the communication.
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.
There’s a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.
