{"id":1376,"date":"2019-06-12T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2019-06-12T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T16:51:00","slug":"35-great-writers-thoughts-brevity-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/35-great-writers-thoughts-brevity-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"35 Great Writer’s Thoughts on Brevity in Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The line from Ernest Hemingway \u2014 that <\/span>\u201cThe first draft of anything is shit\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/a> \u2014 wasn\u2019t hyperbole. And it wasn\u2019t advice to comfort his inferiors. There are <\/span>some 47 alternative endings<\/span><\/a> for Hemingway\u2019s <\/span>A Farewell To Arms<\/span><\/i>, written by his hand alone. Hemingway rewrote the first part of the book, by his own count, more than <\/span>50<\/span><\/i> times.<\/span><\/p>\n

When he was asked by <\/span>Paris Review<\/span><\/i> what it was that had stumped him, <\/span>Hemingway replied<\/span><\/a>, simply, \u201cGetting the words right.\u201d In the ending he did choose, we see another classic Hemingway quote \u2014\u00a0\u201cTo be successful in writing, use short sentences.\u201d \u2014\u00a0in action. He cut pages then paragraphs to land on a single sentence as the ending: \u201cAfter a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

We find the same belief shared among many of the greats. As Shakespeare put, \u201cBrevity is the soul of wit.\u201d Here are 35 great writers with similar thoughts on the importance of brevity in writing:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cKill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler\u2019s heart, kill your darlings.\u201d \u00a0\u2015 Stephen King, <\/span>On Writing<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cIf it is possible to cut a word <\/span>out<\/span>, always cut it <\/span>out<\/span>.\u201d \u2014 George Orwell<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cIt is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.\u201d \u2015 Friedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cThe shorter and the plainer the better.\u201d \u2014 Beatrix Potter<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cA successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.\u201d \u2015 Mark Twain<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cAll I’m writing is just what I feel, that’s all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.\u201d \u2015 Jimi Hendrix<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cI believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.\u201d \u2015 Truman Capote<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cLike all magnificent things, it’s very simple.\u201d \u2015 Natalie Babbitt<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cOne day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.\u201d \u2014 Jack Kerouac<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cRead over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.\u201d \u2015 Samuel Johnson<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cBeginning writers tend to be verbose. We can\u2019t tell the difference between an essential detail and an inessential one. We\u2019re like golden retrievers romping through Storyland, and pretty much every damn thing we see is a squirrel.\u201d \u2014 Chuck Palahniuk<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cThe most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.\u201d \u2014 Thomas Jefferson<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cOne has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don’t write that frequently gives what you do write its power.\u201d \u2014 Toni Morrison<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cSimplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity.\u201d \u2014\u00a0Charles Bukowski<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cA man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who instead of aiming a single stone at an object takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.\u201d \u2014 Samuel Johnson<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.” \u2014 Ernest Hemingway<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cI have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.\u201d \u2014\u00a0Jane Austen<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cVigorous 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.\u201d \u2015 Strunk & White, <\/span>The Elements of Style<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cWhen a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.\u201d \u2015 Strunk & White, <\/span>The Elements of Style<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cExamine every word you put on paper. You’ll find a surprising number that don’t serve any purpose.\u201d \u2015 William Zinsser, <\/span>On Writing Well<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cClutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.\u201d \u2015 William Zinsser, <\/span>On Writing Well<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cYou know you\u2019re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.\u201d \u2014\u00a0Ernest Hemingway<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication.\u201d \u2014 Leonardo da Vinci<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.\u201d \u2014\u00a0Mark Twain<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cAny fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.\u201d \u2014 Albert Einstein<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cHave something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.\u201d \u2014 Matthew Arnold<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cOur life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.\u201d \u2015 Henry David Thoreau<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cUse familiar words\u2014words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary, and no advice is more difficult to accept. When we feel an impulse to use a marvellously exotic word, let us lie down until the impulse goes away.\u201d \u2014 James J. Kilpatrick<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cI do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.\u201d \u2014Tom Clancy<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cI never study style; all that I do is try to get the subject as clear as I can in my own head, and express it in the commonest language which occurs to me.\u201d \u2014 Charles Darwin<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cThe finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.\u201d \u2014 George Eliot<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cAnyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.\u201d \u2014 H.W. Fowler<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cThe most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.\u201d \u2014 Robert Heinlein<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cThere are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.\u201d \u2015 Thomas Mann<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cThe chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.\u201d \u2014 Hippocrates<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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