Sentences Quotes · Page 13

I wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant.

— Elizabeth Crook

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

— Wislawa Szymborska

The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.

— Marshall McLuhan

Staying in a marriage without love is like serving a life sentence with an incompatible cell mate.

— Jeanne Phillips

I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.

— Rachel Cohn

Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

— Joyce Carol Oates

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

— Douglas Coupland

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

— Richard Brautigan

You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to…

— William Zinsser

I don't think I really accepted my power as a woman until I realized that no was a complete sentence. When I…

— Leeza Gibbons

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a…

— Confucius

My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history…

— Amy Bloom

The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word…

— Christian Finnegan

When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is…

— Vivian Gornick

Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt,…

— Isaac Asimov

If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six…

— Michael Ende

I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and…

— Alice Munro

I just don't know what makes a picture, really - the thing that makes it is something unique, as far as I…

— Harry Callahan

As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close…

— Michael Palin

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence…

— Peter Straub

The future is not in our hands. We have no power over it. We can act only today. We have a sentence…

— Mother Teresa

Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the…

— William Zinsser

The book works better if I know everything I can about the ending. Not just what happens, but how it happens and…

— John Irving

In trying to express only those aspects of ourselves that we believe will guarantee us the acceptance of others, we suppress some…

— Debbie Ford

Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not…

— Marlene van Niekerk

In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality'…

— Philip K. Dick

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child… My hemmings and hawings over…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This…

— Noam Chomsky

To hell with your cancer. I've been living with cancer for the better part of a year. Right from the start, it's…

— Walter White

Things are going so well. We’re volleying words back and forth. Everything she says, I have something I can say back. We’re…

— David Levithan

If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.

— David Mamet

Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence.

— King Vidor

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

— Aidan Chambers

Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.

— David Bayles

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

— Ella Maillart

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

— John Banville

I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.

— Gillian Flynn

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

— Denis Diderot