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Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of… — Constance Hale
A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the… — Constance Hale
There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences… — Constance Hale
Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle to let them… — Constance Hale
I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day… — Jack Kerouac
Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been… — Brian Eno
I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life. — Etheridge Knight
I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from… — Julian Clary
What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to make my code… — Joshua Bloch
It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death. — Richard K. Morgan
The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings, the grad students… — Craig Clevenger
Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv… — Michael Scott
Michael Koryta is that rare author who is at once a compelling story teller and a fantastic writer. From the first sentence of THOSE WHO… — Lisa Unger
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. — Bonnie Friedman
There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want to write, even… — Scott Berkun
Some things you just can't explain. You don't even try. You don't know where to start. All your sentences would jumble up like a giant… — R. J. Palacio
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite... — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean. — Arthur Koestler
Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the… — Vera Nazarian
The last sentence in a piece is another adventure. It should open the piece up. — Joan Didion
Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such… — Joe Abercrombie
Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be. — Wayne Dyer
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down. — Winston Churchill
Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take refuge from myself. — Jonathan Franzen
Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just figuring out that… — Warren Buffett

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