Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence. — John Green Copy Share Image
I never use declarative sentences when I'm first meeting people. I always just ask questions. — Ryan Serhant Copy Share Image
I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
That was how I was going to get things back to normal-by working. I never thought I would use the words “working”… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I'm suddenly worried people will think that I believe their religion can be summed up on four sex-obsessed sentences. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
The Civil War was fought, in a sense, over whether that sentence - all men are created equal - is to be… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
So it's not a thing that's a struggle. It's work, but it's not a struggle. It's fun. And she had a very… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
It's been so long now and so much has happened that I am able now to look back with much less emotion… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Two of the three men, who were imprisoned, Norman Butler and Robert 15x Johnson, convicted and given life sentences, I'm absolutely convinced… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by… — Rona Jaffe Copy Share Image
A man convicted of murder is twenty times more likely than a woman convicted of murder to receive the death penalty. Since… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and… — Gina Berriault Copy Share Image
Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without (my wife) Laurie, I would never be here right now, I know that. I would either be in a coffin, or… — Art Pepper 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
Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence. — Lauren Hutton Copy Share Image
Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained. — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
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