"In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own…" — Amy Tan

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• Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. — Niels Bohr
• For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message… — John Sung
• I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every… — Alexander Woollcott
• Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action. — Kurt Vonnegut
• Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you… — Iain Banks
• With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an… — Kevin Brockmeier
• The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function,… — William Zinsser
• Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence… — Elwyn Brooks White
• I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb,… — Joe Biden
• Writing is praying with me. You know a child would look up at every sentence and say, 'And what shall… — Frances Ridley Havergal
• You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of… — Caitlin Moran
• Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail. — Clive James

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