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I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at all—steps to the refrigerator,… — Mary Karr
Mack was getting frustrated. He spoke louder, 'But, don't I have a right to...' To complete a sentence without being interrupted? Not in reality. But… — William P. Young
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence… — Jeanette Winterson
…I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character. Sometimes they are… — Grace Paley
...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor. — William Strunk, Jr.
I’ve heard it said: ‘By his home you shall know him’; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone who reverses the… — Steven Brust
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence… — Werner Herzog
When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until… — Louise Erdrich
I shouldn't have said it, but the word slipped out of my mouth as easy as air. it wasn't exactly the kind of work any… — Obert Skye
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of… — Aleister Crowley
I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence… — Brenda Ueland
I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence. — Matthew Tobin Anderson
For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle… — Walker Percy
Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I… — Gideon Defoe
Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write. — Jincy Willett
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. — Jacques Barzun
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or… — W. Somerset Maugham
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set… — Saint Augustine
Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon… — Francis Bacon
What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was… — Tom Robbins
That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there… — Charles Bukowski
You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down, memorized it, and… — John Green
What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice… — Annie Proulx
Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time listening to what… — Terry Pratchett

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