Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the… — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, only in fact. When I take a sentence in my… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
It's always a challenge to discover the most effective first sentence, and the most effective final sentence, in a chapter for instance,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal… — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
There was alliteration happening all over the place in that sentence. — Moira J. Moore Copy Share Image
She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions,… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Staying in a marriage without love is like serving a life sentence with an incompatible cell mate. — Jeanne Phillips Copy Share Image
We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond… — Chen-Ning Yang Copy Share Image
The Code of the Vampires decreed that anyone who violated the Sacred Law was condemned to death, the blood burning. Charles had… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
