“Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summari...” — Nancy Kress Quote

Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major dramatized event.

You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the same: Choose the type of ending that best suits what's gone before.

The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'

How many times have you opened a book, read the first few sentences and made a snap decision about whether to buy it? When it's your book that's coming under this casual-but-critical scrutiny, you want the reader to be instantly hooked. The way to accomplish this is to create compelling opening sentences.

I can't hide my feelings. I'm efficient. I've always been that way.

The American presidency combines elements of the efficient and the dignified. The president presides over governance - not making legislation but proposing it, cajoling the co-equal federal legislature and then signing and executing the laws.

I just play football. You understand what you are getting into. They're always trying to improve it, make it better and safer and more efficient. It is what it is.

The gasoline tax is a user fee, but it does not fill enough of the need, and you want cars to be more efficient.

It's just really efficient to work with a person who can do everything in the studio.