Years ago when I got stuck, I'd start twirling my hair. That's not possible anymore. I can't prove the relationship between writing… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“A schoolchild should be taught grammar--for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop. — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
“So sentences are copied, constructed, or created; they are uttered, mentioned, or used; each says, means, implies, reveals, connects; each titillates, invites,… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to… — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active.… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it. — David Rabe Copy Share Image
You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you… — George Halas Copy Share Image
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
James Baldwin had an unrivaled understanding of politics and history and, above all, the human condition. His prose is laser sharp. His… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I always have music on unless I'm reading aloud, which I always do before I hand anything in. It's the only way… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
What's the difference between Lindsay Lohan and Rick Perry? It only takes Lindsay four and a half hours to finish a sentence. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
