Good Sentences Quotes
- Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave… — Zadie Smith
- Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in… — Jane Kenyon
- Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take refuge from myself. — Jonathan Franzen
- Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences. — Sylvia Plath
- No good sentences ever include the word ‘should.’ I should have paid the tavern bill; now they’re coming to break my legs. I should never… — Cassandra Clare
- I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We want… — Maureen Corrigan