I have studied all the sciences and all the major religions and can sum it up in one sentence. We become, have… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences,… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to… — Lianne La Havas Copy Share Image
I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It's cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four… — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date. — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components, — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“I have stretched ropes from bell-tower to bell-tower; garlands from window to window; chains of gold from star to star, and I… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
No words, phrases, or sentences are capable of describing or naming the Way, because once it is named, it is a false… — Henry Chang Copy Share Image
When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And… — Silas House Copy Share Image
A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that… — Mike Farrell Copy Share Image
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time. I-T-C-H-I-N. Aunt Grace leaned closer to the board, squinting. "Mercy Lynne, you're… — Margaret Stohl Copy Share Image
For many years I wanted to be a rock star but of course that didn't work out. I did however write on… — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
The mental state I'm in is completely different, but the act of trying to write is the same. I mean, in all… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
