Writing is looking for music between sentences.

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

— Mary Oliver

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight…

— Michael Cunningham

I don't really like the idea of putting myself in any category now... I think that people are looking for music that's real and…

— Yuna

I've always had my ear peeled for interesting music. As a student, I regularly spent time hunting for interesting repertoire, looking through music bins,…

— Anne Akiko Meyers

Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

“No, I don't really think there's a "golden age" of anything. I think now is pretty fucking amazing. I'm probably the least nostalgic person.…

— J Spaceman

“the translator says that a sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question…

— Rachel Cusk

As a director you have to be at 30,000 ft objectively looking at everything, wondering if you're making the right objective, emotional, story, character…

— Alex Kurtzman

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down…

— Billy Eckstine

Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

— Ray Bradbury

If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate…

— John Oliver

I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really…

— Kelly Link

Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or…

— Simon Sinek

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters…

— Joan Didion

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

— Karen Thompson Walker