There is story of a English Author - His son wanted him to write a one page summary...

[Sweet Pinki]

...of something? , The author was not getting time, so he wrote 27 pages letter and told son- sorry I did not have time to write 1 page summary hence writing long letter ! Friends , do you agree to this ? When we have to write , talk , communicate something effective , crisp it is quite difficult to keep it short hence probably we talk more , write huge emails and spend time. How many of you agree to this ?

[Don]

The job of a good author is to take incredibly complex, profound, and meaningful ideas and try to condense them into the simplest form possible. Words are merely symbols for actual things, and the less of them you use, the closer you are to the truth. This is what authors should strive for in everything they write, even though they may be able to think of infinite number of beautiful words.