Book Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“The most important sentence in a book is the first sentence. Everything follows from it. The first words have to stop the reader in…

— Anonymous

The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop.

— Susan Sontag

I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry on the…

— John Steinbeck

“Your life is only one sentence in the Book of Life.”

— Spencer Rectenwald

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“The best sentences orient us, like stars in the sky, like landmarks on a trail. They remain the test, whether or not to read…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

It blew my mind, reading Swing Time, that I could take any sentence in the book, and it was one of the most beautiful…

— George Saunders

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Regina read all this, thinking with each sentence she'd put the book down. But a sentence became a paragraph, which flowed on into a…

— Deborah Johnson

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

— William Gibson

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't…

— Morris Gleitzman

My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally…

— David Henry Hwang