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I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own… — Lydia Davis
There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't… — Trey Gowdy
I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out of me like… — Glenda Millard
I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that… — Michael Cunningham
If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not. — Nancy Grace
Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer… — Amy Hempel
Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a… — Lianne La Havas
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple… — Marilyn Hacker
See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was. — Greg Iles
I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect… — Greg Iles
When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It… — Etgar Keret
The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church… — John McGahern
I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice. — Matthew Perry
Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence spoken to me:… — Roland Barthes
I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and improve my sentence… — William T. Vollmann
I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of. — William Zinsser
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing. — Keith Gessen
If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate! — David Mermin
If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a… — Adam Haslett
Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly… — Peter Farb
Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive. — Masa Takayama
Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white. — Alfred Tarski
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is… — Marianne Moore

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