It's beyond TMI - oversharing is not just too much information; it's incessant sharing of non-information - breaking news about your gluten-free diet complete with duck face selfies.
No one ever wants the whole script. I give the whole script to people who require the whole script but to those people who don't require the whole script I don't give it to them and no one cares. They're relieved not to have to read extra pages that they're not in.
I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.
The best way to be boring is to include everything.
It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.
I do not get caught up in mundane, routine things.
How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.
A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.
I don't think people need to know what colour socks I'm wearing today; I don't think people need to know what shower gel I'm using. There's too much information in the world, and there's no magic or mystery anymore.
I firmly believe that knowing too much too soon can color your performance in a not good way. I just don't want to know until I need to know.
Who cares how many miles per hour the ball traveled once it left the bat, or how high the ball traveled in degrees, or how many seconds it took to leave the ballpark?
Liars hate silence, so they often try to fill it up by talking more than they need to. They provide far more information than was needed or asked for.
Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.
What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous.
All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.
