I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
To me, the most telling thing is we have a man [Donald Trump] who cannot complete a sentence. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Monkey Beach is a moody, powerful novel full of memorable characters. Reading it was like entering a pool of emerald water to… — Anita Rau Badami Copy Share Image
I think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing. — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to… — Aaron Brookner Copy Share Image
Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When we were children, letters were like fun toys. We played with them through our building blocks. We colored them in books.… — Ji Lee Copy Share Image
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Digital technology, you see, is not the villain here. It simply offers another dimension. I'm not sure if it's a farther remove… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
And neither do I, asshole. (Wren) Wow. Multiple syllables and a whole sentence from the tiger. Who’d have ever thought it? Whoever… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual. — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Sentences confined to limited definitions meanings restricted to limited words knotted in experiences and sensations musings, smiles and the eyes; and holding… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life,… — Edoardo Ponti Copy Share Image
Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
