Last week a former Royal Marine who is the boyfriend of the model Kelly Brooks crashed into a bus stop while driving… — Geoffrey K. Pullum Copy Share Image
In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
It's been so long now and so much has happened that I am able now to look back with much less emotion… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
My name is indigenous to my country, it is not easy to pronounce, it takes effort to say correctly and I am… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong.… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I never saw so intelligent a man have so much trouble in getting out a connected sentence. Ever since I have known… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I'm just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I've got to tell you. I sweat bullets over… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Writing is praying with me. You know a child would look up at every sentence and say, 'And what shall I say… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to… — Florence Ellinwood Allen Copy Share Image
It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The breakdown of our language, evident in the misuse, i.e., the misunderstanding of nouns and adjectives, is most grave, though perhaps not… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
My music is more like ghetto gospel; there's a message in my words, so people listen. Sometimes you might here different things;… — Young Jeezy 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
I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
…Abe didn’t say a word. He made straight for his journal and wrote down a single sentence. One that would radically alter… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living… — John Banville Copy Share Image
