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Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington. — Stephen Kinzer
Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it. — James Altucher
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of… — John Wesley Powell
The sentence imposed on Abdul Kadir sends a powerful and clear message. We will bring to justice those who plot to attack the United States… — Loretta Lynch
The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting. — Malik Bendjelloul
I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred… — Edward P. Jones
I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the… — Jenny Shipley
By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained. — Michael Hastings
Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very little to do… — Siri Hustvedt
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life. — Kenneth Clarke
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have… — William Strunk, Jr.
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. — Jeff Greenfield
The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His… — Richard Cecil
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple,… — Larry McMurtry
This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be. — Julius Rosenberg
As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I… — Peter Straub
Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The… — Patrick White
I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that… — Jim Bakker
It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down. — James Lipton
What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that… — Chaim Potok
You need a very, exceptionally clear vision. And to me, a vision is something that you can say in one sentence. The fewer the words… — Ron Johnson
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if… — Michael Ondaatje
I would love for the time to come where somebody can talk about me and not have to talk about Britney and Christina in the… — Jessica Simpson
Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence. — Adrian Grenier
I work every day until I do not have more to say. I learned from Graham Greene that a very good way is to stop… — Henning Mankell

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