Terry Pratchett

I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.

English Author

John Bradley-West

Fantasy fans are incredibly loyal and passionate. Other people don't want to be seen as passionate about things, they want to be cool and laconic. The great thing about fantasy fans is they'll really get behind a show.

English Actor

Julia Gillard

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

Australian Statesman

Jerry Saltz

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.

American Critic

Lawrence Wright

To an outsider, Abilene was like a small landfall in the Sargasso Sea - remote, laconic, and forever closed to strangers.

American Author

Joseph Brodsky

Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.

American Poet

Using 'laconic' suggests the message is clear and effective without extra words.

Brevity Impact

Be careful not to confuse 'laconic' with lack of detail or undefined - it implies deliberate succinctness.

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'Laconic' in academic context denotes concise expression with high precision and clarity.

Academic Precision

'Laconic' in humor implies dry wit; it can be subtly funny without outward enthusiasm.

Humor Dynamics

Laconic statements pack a punch; they express complex ideas with few words.

Expressive Efficiency

In literature, a laconic style can create a distinctive voice and strong character presence.

Literary Style

 in its appetite for the Black body. America guns down Black bodies and then walks around them, bored, like laconic lions next to half-eaten gazelles, bloody lips