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I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question… — Ahdaf Soueif
Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind… — John Irving
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind.… — Albert Camus
It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________ ,” (fill in the name of the person you’re not… — Brian P. Cleary
Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence. — Nora Roberts
Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense. — Gretchen Rubin
It was the building from the drawing in my brain. And if you don’t think that’s a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it. — James Patterson
Every word you add dilutes the sentence. — Miller Williams
Even at the end of the road, read the first sentence, there is a road. Even at the end of the road, a new road… — D. J. MacHale
There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence. — Christopher Pike
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we… — Ronald Reagan
The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence. — John Green
No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or… — Nicole Krauss
Softie was not a word you could use in the same sentence as Eric. — Charlaine Harris
She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to… — Richelle Mead
I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking such things...' She let the sentence die its own death — Markus Zusak
Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it. — Giordano Bruno
It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash… — Jeanne DuPrau
As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first sentence, draw them… — Alan Moore
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous. — Gustave Flaubert
…Abe didn’t say a word. He made straight for his journal and wrote down a single sentence. One that would radically alter the course of… — Seth Grahame-Smith
What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter;… — Salman Rushdie
I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single… — Silas House
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. — Edgar Allan Poe

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