Classic Quote by Scott Westerfeld

“How strange that Scott was partly the impetus for his coming. Oh well, Lord. I guess I shouldn’t try to make sense of it.…

— Kim Cash Tate

Whatever simplicity I've achieved in writing, I think I owe most of it to Jean Renoir and Hemingway: simple, declarative sentences. I've read some…

— Gene Wilder

I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest.

— Nelson DeMille

So you have the challenge of just learning the lines, period, and not only learning them, but learning them to the extent that you…

— Glenn Close

“I want to write something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. As usual, F. Scott Fitzgerald”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You, who taught us to love our Walter Scott next to our “Christian Year,” and who gave us half-crowns for rehearsing him when other…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

The best scripts I read are usually pretty - they move really quickly, there's not a lot of exposition in between all of what's…

— Kirsten Dunst

You liked the freshness of it, c'mon try it" and I said "oh God, I read it three of four times" and finally I…

— Jeff Bridges

“Always grab the reader by the throat in the first paragraph, send your thumbs into his windpipe in the second, and hold him against…

— Paul O'Neill

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words,…

— John Ruskin

Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character…

— Richard Bausch

With my characters, I prefer to not say too much, and in fact, I tend to cut down some of the lines in most…

— Peter Stormare