Short Crisp Quotes

#1. Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean.

Brad Thor

#2. The divorce papers remained unopened in the crisp yellow envelope. He had thrown it on his desk without a backward glance. Between his lashes, his dark chocolate eyes burned with fury but there was something else in the depths that she hadn't seen in a long time, passion.

Suzan Battah

#3. That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

John Milton

#4. The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.

Frederick Lenz

#5. A bitter, disappointed, and jealous man kills the man he believes to be his wife's lover, this you consider to be unlikely. A murderous Nazi spy with orders to abduct a parrot, on the other hand -

Michael Chabon

#6. Cold love's the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized.

Mervyn Peake

#7. The gang leader was a gentleman.
Which made me want him even more.

Allison Van Diepen

#8. I'm acting with the best actors in the world.

Jeremy Piven