If we had a truth-in Government act comparable to the truth-in-advertising law, every note issued by the Treasury would be obliged to… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
It blew my mind, reading Swing Time, that I could take any sentence in the book, and it was one of the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence,… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? . . . Twelve white… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
Oh, sweet the joy this sentence gives: ‘I know that my Redeemer lives!’ — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia. — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
A knife!" I yelled, still brandishing my pillow. "Jim, I command you to get me a gelding knife. If this guy wants… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
It's important to look ahead, I think, to shape your stuff for - again - effect. Because it's just so easy to… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One open, one closed. It was no wonder that the first image that came to mind when I thought of either of… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I have served a sufficiently long sentence. I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating.… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
