For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated,… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail. — Clive James Copy Share Image
I like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret]. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
This is serious, if Martha gets the maximum sentence on all counts, she could serve 20 years in prison. Of course, you… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and… — Tawni O'Dell Copy Share Image
I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
HIV is not a death sentence. It doesn't mean life's over. It means that life's going to be different, but you still… — Jay Ellis Copy Share Image
I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence,… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day.… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said,… — Alexandre Dumas 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
Abdul Nacer Benbrika's sentence doesn't expire, I'm told, until 2021, but I think it would be invidious for me as the Attorney-General… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
We're in a world of truncated sentences, soundbites and Twitter... [Language] is being eroded -- it's changing. Our expressiveness and our ease… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences? — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't… — F. Lee Bailey Copy Share Image
"I don't like it" or "I like it". This sentence must go away from your tongue. Likes and dislikes are only for… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
I think the rule of thumb should be this: if you preface a sentence about a friend with the phrase, 'I love… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language. — Vito Acconci 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
I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so are we, sentence by… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an atmosphere you… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
To me, photographs are like words and I generally will place many photographs together or print them one inside the other in… — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
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