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Line Quotes by Amy Hempel
- I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.
- I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I…
- I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote.…
More Line Quotes
- For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its… — Paul Auster
- Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections. — Diane Ackerman
- The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in… — Michael Badnarik
- I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women. — Erykah Badu
- It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember… — Jim Bakker
- The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what… — James A. Baldwin
- '3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason… — Christian Bale
- Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. — Lucille Ball
- If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging… — Russell Banks
- I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below,… — Saint Basil
- Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent… — Charles Baudelaire