During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. — Barrett Wendell Copy Share Image
“Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences!” — Douglas R. Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“...sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.” — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Many times, I don't know how to express myself, and I always keep silence cause I can't find the right sentences for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
And everything that comes out of my mouth is gonna be repeated in two-sentence-long bites for the next years of my life.… — Cory Monteith 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
Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“You’re still the one I can tell anything. You’re still the one, when my sentences run out of words, you finish them… — Suanne Laqueur Copy Share Image
The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences and ideas dragged… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
…when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence…in love, never settle…value yourself first and this will help you to value… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about language from reading slush. You can immediately tell if a writer is in control of the narrative.… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
In the performance of an illocutionary act in the literal utterance of a sentence, the speaker intends to produce a certain effect… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You wrote this right?” he said. “It tells how to defeat Set.” Thoth unfolded the papyrus pages. “Oh, dear. I hate reading… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
We would never throw up our hands and say to those white boys - well, too bad, if you had just stayed… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and… — Sy Safransky Copy Share Image
