Every Sentence Quotes

50 quotes by 43 authors

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 he is to deliver. Without… — John Sung
I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly… — 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 go along, just get to… — Iain Banks
With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone thatâ€™s unlike anyone elseâ€™s, creating an atmosphere you donâ€™t so much… — Kevin Brockmeier
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could… — William Zinsser
Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day,… — Elwyn Brooks White
I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb, and 9/11 in it. I… — Joe Biden
Writing is praying with me. You know a child would look up at every sentence and say, 'And what shall I say next?' That is… — Frances Ridley Havergal
You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence, and each one… — Caitlin Moran
Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail. — Clive James
You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next? — William Zinsser
Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together. — Rodman Philbrick
Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z.… — William Zinsser
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On… — Don DeLillo
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components, — William Zinsser
Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they are all a… — Deb Caletti
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And… — George Orwell

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