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"I don't like it" or "I like it". This sentence must go away from your tongue. Likes and dislikes are only for people who have… — Nirmala Srivastava
You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over… — George Halas
Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any… — Jean Kerr
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. — Joyce Carol Oates
If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer.… — Poppy Z. Brite
Who killed Chivalry? They need to get their sentencing Meanwhile we arguing and I can't get a sentence in — Drake
I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and kill… — Matt Ridley
The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as like a tightrope… — Kevin Barry
Having a soft major is nowhere near the career death sentence that so many make it out to be. The world is changing, and the… — Tucker Max
The first sentence of a book is a promise. — Barbara Kingsolver
I have a horror of the blank page. I simply cannot write on a blank page or screen. Because once I do, I start to… — Charles Krauthammer
Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence? — Jimmy Breslin
I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the… — Tom Wolfe
I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words. — Steve Martin
The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement.… — Joan Didion
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second… — Dick Cavett
Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of… — Bob Newhart
I like editing. Generally, you work under the assumption that everything can be shorter. I like to see if I can reconstruct a sentence. I… — Sheldon Harnick
I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make… — P.J. O'Rourke
A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel… — Gretchen Rubin
I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence… — Alice Oswald
Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time. — Bill Cosby
I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the… — Chang-Rae Lee
Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 36,000 people in the… — Seth Berkley

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