Twain

Great Writing Quote

"To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph." - Mark Twain

That's 379 characters even edited down (note the elipsis), good for three tweets' worth of prose. How would you phrase that in the form of one tweet today? Twain knew what he was talking about, but might have a hard time with Twitter today.