I am grateful to Stacy Schiff first of all because she can write a sentence-because she offers us her scholarship with wit,… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
My diary is a disaster...I can't spell at all...I'll spell the same word completely differently in the same sentence. — Liv Tyler Copy Share Image
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I've always been a fast reader. Now I had to do it slowly, discussing each sentence. And every time I wanted to… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be… — Herbert J. Muller 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
I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it. — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace - what makes us think we can? He just kept coming… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Use "breath prayers" throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
In the performance of an illocutionary act in the literal utterance of a sentence, the speaker intends to produce a certain effect… — John Searle Copy Share Image
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my… — John Milton Copy Share Image
A dependent clause (a sentence fragment set off by commas, dontcha know) helps you explore your story by moving you deeper into… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did… — Jeffrey Rowland Copy Share Image
Then he almost but didn't say the two sentence he'd been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
