Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Your passion for words & sentence structure should equal a painter's passion for color & brushstroke. — Andrew McAleer Copy Share Image
Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of… — John Green Copy Share Image
Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Oh, remember that as certain as the historical fact, He died on Calvary; so certain is the prophetic fact, He shall reign,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. If I can match them… — Pete Sampras Copy Share Image
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture… — Michael Dirda 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
I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The first American word that I learned was cheeseburger. And the first sentence I learned was, "I'm sorry but we don't serve… — Callan McAuliffe Copy Share Image
Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two… — Douglas Adams 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
We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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