The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
No is a complete sentence and so often we forget that. When we don't want to do something we can simply smile… — Susan Gregg Copy Share Image
“I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and… — Sy Safransky Copy Share Image
I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic.… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do? — Edith Pearlman Copy Share Image
I've often said, not totally jokingly, that screenwriting doesn't really qualify as real writing at all. You don't string sentences into paragraphs.… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
If one sentence were to sum up the mechanism driving the Great Stagnation, it is this: Recent and current innovation is more… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
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