T. S. Eliot Quotes

But the shortest works are always the best.

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

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

To say more, is to say less.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Never say more than is necessary.

I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

I say what I need to, not a whole lot more.

Vigorous writing is concise.

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Less is only more where more is no good.

I've really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can.

I do try and keep my scripts quite economical.

Sometimes I think albums are so ambitious, they don't stand as bodies of work because you try to achieve so much, and sometimes we need to do less. Say less.