...Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."]. — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I’d exchanged more saliva than… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The first step to becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you're creating… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
I love weird or funny or beautiful sentences; Joy Williams could write a microwave-oven manual and I'm sure I'd love it, because… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I'm a line-maker. I think that's what makes poets different from prose-writers. That's the main way. We think, not just in sentences… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Who killed Chivalry? They need to get their sentencing Meanwhile we arguing and I can't get a sentence in — Drake Copy Share Image
Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
What defenders of the system typically fail to acknowledge is that the reason violent offenders comprise a fairly large percentage of the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. "You're going to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another — David Lodge Copy Share Image
There,” she said triumphantly. “Like that.” He began to wonder if they were speaking the same language. “Like what?” “That! What you… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
