The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting. — Malik Bendjelloul Copy Share Image
I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 36,000… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
'I am' is the shortest and most complete sentence in the English language. — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd say the sentence 'It was a real honour' - because that implies that you've done something pretty special.… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
“If there is “better”, then there is a “best”. If there is “half”, then there is a “complete”. Far more than being… — Olaotan Fawehinmi Copy Share Image
“Sentence every immoral thought for detention and prosecution. Immorality is a powerful gadget that brings down great monuments of success. Don’t entertain… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I'd be honored to be in the same sentence as Tom Hardy. I've been a twin since the day I was born… — Logan Marshall-Green Copy Share Image
I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I want people who have received a diagnosis of Hepatitis C to know that they didn't just receive a death sentence. They… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or meditative, and it mirrors… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Shukhov gazed at the ceiling in silence. Now he didn't know whether he wanted freedom or not. At first he'd longed for… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence. — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling. — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have… — Lorraine Adams Copy Share Image
By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained. — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
