What you feel when you're writing is the relief of thinking: if you write the sentence correctly, you're clarifying. If you write… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open. — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“The first two sentences are hard to understand, but make some kind of sense. The last sentence is merely rearranged but makes… — Tom Stafford Copy Share Image
Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I could care less about ever having a No. 1 single. I would just like to be able to play and have… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I dreaded having to write. I would find every possible excuse not to sit down at the typewriter… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
[on Edward Snowden] He should be brought back from Russia and given due process, and I think the proper outcome would be… — Mike Pompeo Copy Share Image
Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny. — Freeman Dyson 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
There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by… — John Green Copy Share Image
The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have… — William Kidd Copy Share Image
It blew my mind, reading Swing Time, that I could take any sentence in the book, and it was one of the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
It's language as a kind of structural system. A diagram of a sentence, now that seems like a kind of architectural model.… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
“except a few phrases and sentences, not in all amounting to a page, which I have dropped as evidently unfit for the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness! — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper; after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I have a dream. With that one sentence, Martin Luther King touched and empowered an entire nation. You know what else he… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will… — Albert Wynn Copy Share Image
The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single… — Bo Lozoff 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
Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
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