Condensed Quotes

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

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.

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.