In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white. — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage;… — Laurence D'Orsay Copy Share Image
No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to… — Henry Sweet Copy Share Image
His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action. — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Whatever sentence is passed on the Gang of Four won't be excessive. They brought harm to millions upon millions of people. — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
Once I start writing, I am a huge reviser. To me writing is revising. I probably turn over every sentence that I… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
One thing my mother always instilled in me is to always know my worth. Don't settle for less. She used to say… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Good night, Seth." "So you're running again, then?" One of his boots thudded on the floor. "I'm not running." The other boot… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
I miss dogs, man. I always had a family pet, always had a dog growing up. It was almost equivalent to the… — Michael Vick Copy Share Image
The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
It's also obsessiveness. I'll spend a lot of time working on a single sentence, debating over a dash or a colon, etc.… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
