The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components, — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence. — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
I have served a sufficiently long sentence. I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it.… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken… — Goran Visnjic Copy Share Image
What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
We cannot just say law and order. We have to say - we have to come forward with a plan that is… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who will be partially but directly responsible… — Mark Lynas Copy Share Image
London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences;… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for… — Jack White Copy Share Image
It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
In our country, [habeas corpus ] means that if you've been sentenced and convicted in a state court, either to death or… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Writing helped to have jobs that involved running around, pushing things like dish carts and wheelbarrows. It would be hard to sit… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words. — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“I confine time to the sentences... A poet I am, I paint dreams, I seize dreams!” — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention. — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma. — Joey Santiago Copy Share Image
You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever. — John Green Copy Share Image
Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is. — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
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