I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph. — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The only antidote to anger is to eliminate the internal sentence: "If only you were more like me." — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the… — Ayn Rand 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
John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don’t know if the ineffable poetry of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life. — Ze Frank Copy Share Image
A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Getting cut off from the knights' magic rock also required a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom. (Those of you… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
This is an issue that the Prime Minister put on the COAG agenda. First of all, it is something that would only… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
Living in the now is freedom from all problems connected with time. You ought to remember that sentence, you ought to memorize… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Michael Koryta is that rare author who is at once a compelling story teller and a fantastic writer. From the first sentence… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
I got a call from a mutual friend of ours, Charles King, who's also the executive producer. [Steven Caple Jr and I]… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image