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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple,… — Larry McMurtry
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization. — John Banville
That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it. — Jim Harrison
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every… — G. M. Trevelyan
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat… — E. M. Forster
If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things. — Virginia Woolf
I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My problem with this… — Denis Johnson
May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second! — Gustave Flaubert
Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than… — Seth Godin
AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies"… — William J. Clinton
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to… — Susan Sontag
A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds. — Marianne Moore
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.… — Peter Straub
I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly… — Alexander Woollcott
I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I look up and… — George R. R. Martin
Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the… — Mark Twain
[My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable...My interest… — John Green
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest. — Anatole France
Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open. — Amy Hempel
Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action. — Kurt Vonnegut
Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to… — Iain Banks
Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and… — W. Somerset Maugham
I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories. — Jacqueline Woodson
If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer… — Trenton Lee Stewart

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