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Sentences Quotes by Michael Cunningham
- As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
- Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the…
- I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that…
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- If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence. — John Banville
- Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader… — Barbara Tuchman
- The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say… — Sarah Harrison
- Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath… — Jean Baudrillard
- My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal. — Geraldine Brooks
- We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?" — Gian-Carlo Rota
- Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and… — Michael Ruse