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To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story. — Lyn Hejinian
I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for me to move.Most… — Leila Aboulela
What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by… — Joan Didion
It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I know that everything I say will be directly taken… — Suzanne Collins
I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms. — Jodi Picoult
the sentence im reading is terrific ... — J D Salinger
Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the… — Pat Conroy
Who's Myrnin?" Claire controlled an urge to roll her eyes. "Badass crazy vampire scientist who's my boss." "You realize no part of that sentence made… — Rachel Caine
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were… — Robert Frost
Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you've spoken or… — Muriel Barbery
That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in… — John Green
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed. — Robert A. Heinlein
If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied. — Paula McLain
Until I dicover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added. — Jules Verne
He was so excited by this little bit of intelligence that he might have gone off, perplexed, pondering for a long time. It was like… — Anne Rice
Yes, everyone in the districts will be watching me to see how I handle this death sentence, this final act of President Snow’s dominance. They… — Suzanne Collins
I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop. — Haruki Murakami
Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious… — Adrienne Rich
She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued… — Steve Martin
By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world. — Bret Easton Ellis
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world. — Anne Carson
It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you? — Joss Whedon
He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one… — Laurell K. Hamilton
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from… — David Lodge
Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I… — Richelle Mead

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