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A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and… — William Strunk, Jr.
Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and… — Kristin Scott Thomas
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. — James Thurber
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write… — Alice Walker
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation… — Neale Donald Walsch
In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home. — Len Wein
Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree… — Ai Weiwei
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition… — Alfred North Whitehead
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much. — Colm Toibin
I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had… — Samuel Beckett
[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could… — Steve Martin
The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness! — Evelyn Waugh
Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise… — Emily Bronte
Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd… — Woody Allen
If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the… — Winston Churchill
Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence. — Jasper Fforde
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find?… — Charlotte Bronte
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2.… — George Orwell
Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his… — Lynne Truss
I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period. — William Faulkner
Like O'Rielly, we'll grab the most important word of each sentence... 'The' for example. Also, I'll say, 'I'm angry,' and the graphic will read, 'Colbert… — Stephen Colbert
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I thought Marcus was going to be in my life forever. Then I thought I was wrong. Now he’s back. But this time I know… — Megan McCafferty
Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning… — Vladimir Nabokov

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