Distinctive Quote by Constance Hale

It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.

— Theodore Sturgeon

In some respects, big ideas can be a bit too big for a short story - especially if you've only got a couple of…

— Alastair Reynolds

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to…

— Mark Twain

Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow…

— Winston Churchill

Do not try to make your headline so short that it fails to express your idea properly. It's more important to say what you…

— John Caples

“Some use a slideshow program’s outline view to build a structure on which they can hang all their ideas, and then easily rearrange them…

— Grant Barrett

I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised…

— Barry Schwartz

There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

— Joseph Joubert

It's cool that our stuff is received as it is, and our stuff is fairly long. But from a songwriter's purview as well as…

— Adam Granduciel

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does…

— Daniel Alarcon

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

— Lynn Abbey

You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences…

— David Bowie