What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad? — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
When, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
[True Detective] is an intense show, even in terms of the dialogue - there's a little rhythm to it, in particular in… — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“First, I like how the ice cream won out. Second, we’re not having sex.” — S. Walden Copy Share Image
[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated. — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room… — Andrew Clements Copy Share Image
Seek to make life henceforth a consecrated thing; that so, when the sunset is nearing, with its murky vapors and lowering skies,… — John Ross Macduff Copy Share Image
Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.)… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“She gave his fake boob a poke. "What the hell is in here?" He laughed and pulled the top down part of… — R.E. Butler Copy Share Image
I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights.… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
When we are holding tight to the iron rod, we are in a position to place our hands over theirs and walk… — Rosemary M. Wixom Copy Share Image
You don't scare me, Cadence Jones. I've lived with crazy, I've ridden with crazy, I've vacationed with crazy, I've visited crazy in… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
A careful blending of sarcasm, irony, and teasing, bickering has its own distinctive cadence and rhythm and is as difficult to master… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
On 'Think Like a Man,' they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
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