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There is no one way to render an idea. Letâ€™s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences… — Constance Hale
I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day… — Jack Kerouac
Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story youâ€™ve been… — Brian Eno
I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life. — Etheridge Knight
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
What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to make my code… — Joshua Bloch
Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv… — Michael Scott
Michael Koryta is that rare author who is at once a compelling story teller and a fantastic writer. From the first sentence of THOSE WHO… — Lisa Unger
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite... — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean. — Arthur Koestler
The last sentence in a piece is another adventure. It should open the piece up. — Joan Didion
Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such… — Joe Abercrombie
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down. — Winston Churchill
Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just figuring out that… — Warren Buffett
I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line. — Amy Hempel
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
Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired. — Woody Allen
If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the… — Dale Carnegie
Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it… — Eben Alexander
Digital technology, you see, is not the villain here. It simply offers another dimension. I'm not sure if it's a farther remove from reality than… — Lewis Baltz

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