Gene Wilder Quotes

The shorter and the plainer the better.

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

Minimalism has a connotation of being reductive, and not in the best way. 'Brevetist' is a better term. I'm trying to be as concise as possible and still getting across to the reader. When information is delivered in that way, it is very satisfying to me.

I'm the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.

I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.

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.

Simple is the only way I can write.

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

I don't write with a complex style, I cannot.

Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.

Easy writing makes hard reading.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Good writing does not come from verbiage but from words.

There are writers who pour out words, concepts that sound really important but that basically say nothing. I always tried to be as concise as possible, all to try and reach everyone, but especially the simple people, those who needed to be reached more than anyone else.

I think the best advice I give is to try not to write. Try not to overwrite, try not to make it sound too good. Just use your own voice. Use your own style of putting it down.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

I believe if you want to convey a complex philosophy, it's advisable to keep it simple: day-to-day lingo.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

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

I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

Less is almost always better than more. Short words, short sentences, short speeches.