Pretty much every issue that we've put out, there have been at least one or two things that really surprised me. It… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For me writing is an organic process that starts with engaging the language and then thinking about the structure of the novel… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts,… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not. — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
You know, in the sentence of humanity this place needs to be a parentheses. And when I say parentheses I mean I'm… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Translating Candide into tweets has really deepened my appreciation of his writing - it wouldn't work so well with nineteenth-century authors. Every… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well.… — Ahmet Zappa Copy Share Image
The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________ ,” (fill in the name of the… — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution… — John W. Campbell 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
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
The Light of the world is not put out. Now have death and the grave been converted into the great testimonies for… — Frederick Denison Maurice Copy Share Image
Acrid bitterness inevitably seeps into the lives of people who harbor grudges and suppress anger, and bitterness is always a poison. It… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
