The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write;… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I thought Marcus was going to be in my life forever. Then I thought I was wrong. Now he’s back. But this… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I write first drafts feverishly fast, and then I spend years editing. It's not that sentence-by-sentence perfectionist technique some writers I admire… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
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