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
A short-story collection is harder to formulate pithy sentences about. — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated,… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
“...sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.” — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have… — Tom Jenkinson Copy Share Image
It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet,… — Muriel Barbery 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
They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I didn't understand that you could go to jail for the rest of your life for selling cocaine. I thought life sentences… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight, because I have been saying, for the longest time, that president Bush must set… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Nails are the period at the end of the sentence. They complete the look — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed.… — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing,… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and… — Tawni O'Dell Copy Share Image
I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in… — Karl Ernst von Baer Copy Share Image
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This sentence was much… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
