I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
"And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
You must never let your personal life be outpaced by your professional life. If you do, [if] your professional life takes more… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write. — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trying to take a feeling from one language, and express it in another is naturally that's my goal. You can't possibly achieve… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence. — John Green Copy Share Image
The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for… — Scott Harshbarger Copy Share Image
In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I’ve heard it said: ‘By his home you shall know him’; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper; after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I think it's important to be accurate on the level of the word, but it's also important to be accurate at the… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a… — Confucius Copy Share Image
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
