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If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're… — Lynda Barry
I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I… — Ron Rash
Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a… — Joseph Joubert
In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward. — Amy Tan
The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed,… — Naomi Novik
Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, only in fact. When I take a sentence in my hand, raise it… — Donald Hall
I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness. — V.S. Naipaul
I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing now… — Antonio Gramsci
I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. — Janet Flanner
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last… — F L Lucas
As Aunt Naomi was listing all the things she was going to do to help this person, her friend stopped her in mid-sentence. "Naomi, girl,"… — Patti LaBelle
Life is the expression of tone. In that sentence is the basic principle of Chiropractic. — Daniel D. Palmer
There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you… — Terry Brooks
A clear sentence is no accident. — William Zinsser
The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something… — Paul Reubens
This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't. — Douglas Hofstadter
If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the… — John Irving
I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to… — Louis Begley
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before… — Rick Bass
We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100… — Joan Blades
Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence. — Stephen Baldwin
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well. — Aidan Chambers
The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy. — Chris Cleave
I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them. — Stephen Amell
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

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