To say nothing of the demands of literature; in Stafford's succinct formulation, "Being a writer and being married to a writer is a backbreaking job and my back is now broken".
A good writer is succinct, and two words get the job done: "On," and "Strike".
He had some succinct advice for me as a writer: "Just call them the way you see them and the hell with it"....Hemingway could be very funny about other writers.
The American writer Lorrie Moore gave a succinct definition of humour by saying that it "comes from the surprise release of some buried tension", and Jones specialises in the buriedness.
The great nature writer Peter Matthiessen identified its "fearless and succinct" prose as "the cornerstone of the new environmentalism".
Those were the sad, succinct words of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) science writer Ken Kostel, in a 10 May blog post.
I'm a big admirer of Daniel Woodrell, for his beautiful, precise, sparse prose — I don't do succinct well, so I'm in awe of writers who do.
In Irving's fourteenth novel, Juan Diego Guerrero, an acclaimed middle-aged writer, takes a trip to the… A succinct retrospective of twenty-two works by Robert Ryman has just opened at the Dia Art Foundation in Chelsea, and it offers a tacit reproach… I grew up, musically speaking, in a fairly segregated world.
He's an erudite and engaging writer, pouring decades of wine knowledge into succinct paragraphs that place each country and region in context.
Written in the short, succinct paragraphs and cliffhanger chapter endings recommended by professional children's book writers, "The False Prince" has a surprisingly vague sense of place and particulars.
