Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows — Mati Klarwein Copy Share Image
I was raped: I said no and he wouldn't stop. I also had a scar on my back and blood coming out… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come… — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Wine lovers all speak of their First Time, a quasi-spiritual moment of awakening to wine's wonderment. After that, it's a life sentence.… — Jennifer Rosen Copy Share Image
Michael Koryta is that rare author who is at once a compelling story teller and a fantastic writer. From the first sentence… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out… — Glenda Millard Copy Share Image
When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
I shouldn't have said it, but the word slipped out of my mouth as easy as air. it wasn't exactly the kind… — Obert Skye Copy Share Image
Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A natural hierarchy is simply an order of increasing wholeness, such as: particles to atoms to cells to organisms, or letters to… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The philosophy I always have is what's the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can't read why the… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
Ending a sentence with yo, is like saying, I don't want a job. Not today. Not ever. Know what I mean yo? — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
No sentence can be effective if it contains facts alone. It must also contain emotion, image, logic, and promise. — Eugene Schwartz Copy Share Image
I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
