Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop. — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
Three dead sentences that are said..I m sorry,I love you,I promise not to hurt you again — Bakare Copy Share Image
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ...… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
That American Taliban kid Johnny Walker was indicted today. Ten counts of terrorism. He could get 5 life sentences. In Taliban terms,… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be. — Toni Morrison 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
Learning to exist in a world quite different from that which formed you is the condition, these days, of pursuing research you… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article. — Bob Frankston Copy Share Image
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolour left in the rain. To understand what anyone… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
In one of his final acts in office, President Obama shortened the sentences of 209 prisoners, pardoned 64 individuals .The list included… — Amy Goodman 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
A natural hierarchy is simply an order of increasing wholeness, such as: particles to atoms to cells to organisms, or letters to… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable… — Sol Stein 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
Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought!… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I have a process that I seem to always, to some degree, as a writer, adhere to, but I certainly have never… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Pretty much every issue that we've put out, there have been at least one or two things that really surprised me. It… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I thought Marcus was going to be in my life forever. Then I thought I was wrong. Now he’s back. But this… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction — C. N. Annadurai Copy Share Image
Anytime you start a sentence with 'I am,' you are creating what you are and what you want to be. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together. — Rodman Philbrick Copy Share Image
We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?' — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
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