I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of. — William Zinsser 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
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence. — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
Softie was not a word you could use in the same sentence as Eric. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting. — Malik Bendjelloul Copy Share Image
From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Bedeviled, / human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words / that even now sleep on your tongue, and… — Marie Howe Copy Share Image
Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and… — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
I'll have a sentence in my head that's kind of beautiful and interesting, but I'm not sure why or where it's coming… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They dont jump in on your sentences, saving… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a line-maker. I think that's what makes poets different from prose-writers. That's the main way. We think, not just in sentences… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof I hope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
We would never throw up our hands and say to those white boys - well, too bad, if you had just stayed… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and… — Sy Safransky Copy Share Image
Progressive visions pale and are smashed next to the normalization of market-driven government policies that wipe out pensions, eliminate quality health care,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that’s because it’s all a chain, and a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
