John

“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
― Henry Green

“The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth