Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. John Dryden
With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes. Melissa Rosenberg
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. Robert Southey
It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. Robert Southey
