Chance Quote by Tom Stoppard

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

— Alejandro Zambra

Where there is too much, something is missing.

— Leo Rosten

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes it is better to re-write than overwriting. Avoiding the repetition is the best.

— Biman Gandhi

Take what's useful, discard what is not.

— Bruce Lee

Things that are obvious don't need to be talked about. Things that are missing, do.

— Ron Kaufman

My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage.

— Dieter Rams

Omittance is no quittance.

— William Shakespeare

What we don't include is as important as what we do include.

— Jonathan Ive

Missing is a feeling of not being complete, lacking something you had previously.

— Tasneem Hameed

If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.

— Maurice Blanchot

Try not to write the parts that people skip.

— Elmore Leonard