I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph. — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
Beautifully written, intensely passionate and gripping, FALLEN grabbed me from the first sentence and didn’t let go. Its eerie future world and… — Linnea Sinclair Copy Share Image
Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce… — Confucius Copy Share Image
What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I think you can tilt too far to the side of the story where the message is just simply entertainment. So I… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up. — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences? — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment.… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers… — Clarence Manion Copy Share Image
The vastly different sentences afforded drunk drivers and drug offenders tells us who is viewed as disposable - someone to be purged… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton Copy Share Image
Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them,… — Robert South Copy Share Image
In my own life, I have noticed when I have been meeting directors, that the same sentence with the same inflection can… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
All the lessons of history in four sentences: 1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; 2) The… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide. — David Mamet Copy Share Image