Stanley Elkin Quote

My editor at Random House, Joe Fox, used to tell me, "Stanley, less is more." [...] I had to fight him tooth and nail in the better restaurants to maintain excess because I don't believe that less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.

The Paris Review, The Art of Fiction No. 61, Issue 66, Summer 1976