As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak…

readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number…

— David Gelernter

“The opening sentence alone contained thirty-six words—monstrous”

— James A. Michener

“what we’re hoping for in that opening sentence is the sense that something is about to change (and not necessarily for the better). Simply”

— Lisa Cron

“Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“No one dared do it before, not in front of the King (opening sentence)”

— Gordon Thomas

I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for a moment,…

— Colm Toibin

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

— William Gibson

Certainly, when you have shoulder pads on that go up to your ears, you hold yourself a certain way. You speak with authority when…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with…

— Raymond Chandler

I don't know where it's come from, but after many years of many different products, I feel like I can speak as an authority…

— June Diane Raphael

“You have to experience it, in order to speak about it with authority. Joseph Wambaugh says it with an air of that same authenticity,…

— Joseph Wambaugh

I can't speak with authority about Emeka Anyaoku. I just didn't know him that well.

— Bob Hawke

“When we speak of authority at present we usually have in mind governmental authority. Actually, social order is most firm when imposed and maintained…

— Eric Hoffer

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I've been there.

— Mr. T

I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

— V. S. Naipaul