Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma. — Joey Santiago Copy Share Image
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short,… — T. S. Eliot 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
In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality'… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don’t know if the ineffable poetry of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension,… — Frank Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it. — Claude Simon Copy Share Image
History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to… — Nicole Krauss 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
I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of the letters that are coming in - a lot of them are queries or comments - are one sentence… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what… — John Updike Copy Share Image
