Compress Quotes

You have to shake off and do the things you need to do to be true to the novel - mainly depart from it, and re-invent, and compress.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

No, I never feel that it`s getting away from me, ... I certainly am telling it in more detail, in which case, I think it`s good that I`m telling it in more books than five. Trying to compress it into five would have made it not as readable or enjoyable.