Sarah Dessen Quotes

If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.

But the shortest works are always the best.

Be brief. Above all things be brief.

Brevity - the sister of talent.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

In giving advice I advise you, be short.

Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

To say more, is to say less.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

If you would be pungent, be brief.

For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

Shorth is better than length.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.