What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a… — Confucius Copy Share Image
My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
The antique, almost primitive band he held between his fingers caught the sunlight, glinting silver. “I found this ring shortly after I… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Every person's map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint.There are no two people alike. No two people who understand… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage;… — Laurence D'Orsay Copy Share Image
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed.… — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter,… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother… — John Newton Copy Share Image
The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don’t know if the ineffable poetry of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life. — Ze Frank Copy Share Image
Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only… — Charles James Copy Share Image
I had a bad stutter when I was really young... I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English.… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
