Each character requires different language, and these issues become inseparable. You have all these balls in the air: language, character, narrative. For… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
“Even if I had not been thinking about it, for that matter, certainly I would have had to begin to do so… — David Markson Copy Share Image
Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
The whole secret of abundant living can be summed up on this sentence: 'Not your responsibility but your response to God's ability'. — Carl F. H. Henry Copy Share Image
Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
A sentence from Psalm 101 has been both challenging and convicting for me: 'I will walk in my house with blameless heart'… — Jean Fleming Copy Share Image
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
The vastly different sentences afforded drunk drivers and drug offenders tells us who is viewed as disposable - someone to be purged… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
People who begin sentences with "I may be old-fashioned but--" are usually not only old-fashioned but wrong. I never thought the time… — Robert Benchley 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 think hope is not simply looking around and saying that everything’s great – that’s just ridiculous. For hope to have substance,… — Tim Foreman Copy Share Image
I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is… — Ujjwal Nikam Copy Share Image
When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences. — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Who's Myrnin?" Claire controlled an urge to roll her eyes. "Badass crazy vampire scientist who's my boss." "You realize no part of… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion… — Mao Zedong 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
You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken… — Goran Visnjic Copy Share Image
What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
As a general rule, no one should ever be allowed to say there is no history of racial tension here, because that… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key… — John Huston Copy Share Image
A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit.… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
That's the hardest thing to do-to stay with a sentence until it has said what it should say, and then to know… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United… — Marek Belka Copy Share Image
I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line. — Amy Hempel 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
The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward. — Helen Hunt Copy Share Image
To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
