Sentences Quotes · Page 71

A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

— Anonymous

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

— Jodi Picoult

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town:…

— Samuel Johnson

My fictional worlds were those of a fabulist, of an intellectual fantasist. I was the lawgiver, and the countries and inhabitants of…

— Norman Lock

Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

— David Riesman

If you say, 'Oh, there was a little bit of acidity from the lime juice on the left side of my tongue,…

— Pete Wells

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

— Giordano Bruno

In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.

— Daniel Wallace

I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.

— Bill Bryson

Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a…

— Julia Cameron

Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they…

— Maximilien Robespierre

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

— Virginia Woolf

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close…

— Patty Duke

AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

— Yusuf Hamied

The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of…

— Robertson Davies

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it…

— Philip Roth

I feel it’s important to talk about the complex issues affecting us. And these are complex issues. I think it’s insulting to…

— Asghar Farhadi

Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar…

— Bonnie Friedman

What I love about lyrics is that they don't have to be very complicated. A good sentence over a great chord with…

— Jason Schwartzman

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

— Anonymous

Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by,…

— Joshua Foer

Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence…

— Anonymous

All I need is a badly mangled, irate sentence stalking me.

— Karen Marie Moning