Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The words, "I have a dog named Winn-Dixie," popped into my head in the voice of a small girl with a southern… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I have tons of stuff that, you know, seems like it's a well-constructed sentence but it is not how people talk, it's… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I had this bad habit of not writing out a first draft and going back. For me it was the first sentence,… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
I sat down and tried to write a story. "Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences;… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands. — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
Wanting to know absolutely what a story is about, and to be able to say it in a few sentences, is dangerous:… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright goodfeeling.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
That it is a solecism to begin a sentence with 'and' is a faintly lingering superstition. The OED gives examples ranging from… — Ernest Gowers Copy Share Image
All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's another way to edit the sentence, which is to add a comma before the second 'which.' The survivor is struggling toward… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
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