Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

— Kenneth Clark

A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his…

— Dick Cavett

“She’d passed sentence on God two years ago, and she fed her doubts of Him daily, taking care they didn’t shrivel and die.”

— Karin Kaufman

The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how…

— Rick Yancey

“Life’ and ‘Fair’ were two words that just didn’t belong in a sentence together – unless the word ‘Not’ was in there, too.”

— Nikki Sex

A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes…

— Constance Hale

The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Soon enough my mind hooked onto the missing guitars and the locked door and the hole filled up with clues and suspects and all…

— Sara Gran

“Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't…

— Morris Gleitzman

I'll have a sentence in my head that's kind of beautiful and interesting, but I'm not sure why or where it's coming from. So…

— Don Hertzfeldt

The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop.

— Susan Sontag

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should…

— William Strunk, Jr

The most determinative sentence which should always be followed in life..THE RACE IS NOT OVER BECAUSE I HAVE NOT WON YET!

— Ur My Destiny

“After another minute Reuben brought forth the following sentence: "I ha' scranleted two hundred furrows come five o'clock down i' the bute." It was…

— Stella Gibbons