Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences…

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“The best sentences orient us, like stars in the sky, like landmarks on a trail. They remain the test, whether or not to read…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

In the dictionary of successful persons, practice is the only word which does not allow in itthe entry of words like impossible.

— Mak_786

In the dictionary of successfulpersons, practice is the only word which does not allow init the entry of words like impossible

— Mak_786

Everything is practice. Every word you write and action you take is a chance to get better.

— Jeff Goins

I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write…

— Lawrence Block

“Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living from writing…

— John Banville

Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll…

— Henry David Thoreau

I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.

— Matthew Specktor

When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my transgressions--always a…

— Clay Aiken

I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the difficulty level…

— Colson Whitehead

Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or…

— Joseph Campbell

Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living from writing…

— John Banville

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

— Siri Hustvedt

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

— Lawrence Block