Good Sentence Quotes

18 quotes by 15 authors

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. — Barbara Tuchman
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader must plod through… — Barbara Tuchman
Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very' coming… — William Allen White
I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage. — Carl Hiaasen
I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map. — Melissa Bank
I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from… — Julian Clary
I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good… — Amy Hempel
A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows — Mati Klarwein
Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without… — Michel de Montaigne
The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write… — Jonathan Dee
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist… — Neil Gaiman
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than… — Karen Thompson Walker
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say,… — Barack Obama
She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence. — Zadie Smith
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous. — Gustave Flaubert

Who Wrote These Good Sentence Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 18 Good Sentence Quotes as follows: