I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading… — Jhumpa Lahiri 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
A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do.… — Yann Martel 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
Like O'Rielly, we'll grab the most important word of each sentence... 'The' for example. Also, I'll say, 'I'm angry,' and the graphic… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I seem like a big bombastic outgoing dude, when it comes down to it with the ladies, when I was a single,… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid.… — Anne Lamott 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
I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I will have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't… — Toni Morrison 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
The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Another friend began to say, "Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he..." This sentence was never finished.… — Quentin Crisp 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
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
In response to the advocacy of groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, most states adopted tougher laws to punish drunk driving. Numerous… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
