Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only… — Charles James Copy Share Image
As soon as we try to write the simplest sentence about God, we find ourselves in anxious perplexities, but when we stop… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a… — Julian Gough Copy Share Image
Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not… — Marlene van Niekerk Copy Share Image
In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense,… — Joe Scarborough Copy Share Image
Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs… — Plato Copy Share Image
Essayists must not only be succinct but have original ideas and, even harder to come by, or to fake, likable voices. Consciously… — Cyra McFadden Copy Share Image
If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but… — Paul Morabito Copy Share Image
All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here. — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful. — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
