Write the story. Don't write sentences.

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

— James Patterson

You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to…

— Anne Bernays

“If you don't write the story, who will?”

— Ora Rosalin

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

— Ethan Canin

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

— Tom Robbins

I write different kinds of sentences, depending on what the book is, and what the project is. I see my work evolving. I'm writing…

— Paul Auster

When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share…

— Steven Sinofsky

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

— Roger Zelazny

“I don't understand how an adult can write those last two sentences and not want to kill themselves for being so despicable.”

— Harvey Pekar

“That’s what I try to do—write sentences that won’t be like sand castles.”

— William Maxwell

In real life...you can't write 2 sentences on antyhing...but on Twitter you're a philosopher...

— Jerett Parker

If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you tell it…

— James Patterson

For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public…

— Saint Augustine

I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK.

— John Darnielle

I don't write for any particular kind of person.

— Mary Wesley