Compress Quote by Leigh Newman

“It's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?!”

— Martha Sweeney

Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself…

— Elizabeth Reaser

All I really know in nonfiction is that when I come home, I've got all these notes and I'm trying to figure out what…

— George Saunders

The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some…

— Pawel Pawlikowski

I'll lie awake and think about scenes I could have done better, that I could have filmed in a different way.

— Douglas Henshall

When I write, I never think of segments as chapters; I think of them as scenes. I always visualize them in my mind. Then…

— Robert Cormier

With 'Sin Nombre,' there are parts that I wish were longer. And with 'Jane Eyre' especially, there were parts that I had to compress…

— Cary Fukunaga

Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto…

— Samuel Beckett

“You can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I’ve ever known and that’s what I need.”

— Sheri Richey

Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and…

— Sally Hawkins

I do try to compress a lot of information into what I do. It's funny.

— Robert Sikoryak

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

— Harlan Howard