If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
I always do casting for every role, even if it's just one sentence. I like to work with theater actors because they're… — Maren Ade Copy Share Image
I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in… — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward. — Helen Hunt Copy Share Image
That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor. — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I feel it’s important to talk about the complex issues affecting us. And these are complex issues. I think it’s insulting to… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit.… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him? — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
So, some of the most difficult formal poems that I've written, say one sentence sonnets, I've been able to do those fairly… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The words, "I have a dog named Winn-Dixie," popped into my head in the voice of a small girl with a southern… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own. — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
All things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal. — Lewis Black Copy Share Image