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Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?. — Kurt Vonnegut
I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said. Two sentences," said… — James Joyce
He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it. — Ayn Rand
I remember my wife in white.' It just made people weep to hear it...Everybody just thought it was the saddest sentence that was ever written.… — Carolyn Parkhurst
It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a… — Laurie Halse Anderson
I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write… — Ernest Hemingway
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God… — Barbara Kingsolver
And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at… — Diane Setterfield
Then he almost but didn't say the two sentence he'd been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of glass, and also,… — Nicole Krauss
whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other… — Mark Twain
Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago… — Jodi Picoult
I don't mean to be rude—" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable. "Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship. — Terry Pratchett
The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close.… — Daniel Handler
I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second. — Laurence Sterne
[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining… — Douglas Adams
Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the… — Julio Cortazar
We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not… — Stephen Hawking
The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " is to place a period… — Robert A. Heinlein
I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. — Amy Hempel
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the… — Mark Twain
Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a… — Gabrielle Zevin
A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn… — Max Lucado
You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much… — Gore Vidal
Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving… — Julian Gough

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