I guess I just use the word vibe in pretty much everyday context and every sentence I possibly can. Some people find… — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi Copy Share Image
We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail;… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Milton on speed. I am going to need about a decade to think about that. That delay in syntax, the putting off… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled… — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights.… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
When I was writing the first few books, what I would do is write a bunch of sentences and then go back… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true. — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
Oh, I know I'll improve. It's just that my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes now. That's a sentence I… — Anne Shirley Copy Share Image
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
