Tryon Edwards Quotes

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.

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

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

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

I labor to be brief, and manage to be obscure.

Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.

Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

But the shortest works are always the best.

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

Conciseness is underrated

You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.