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I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line. — Amy Hempel
I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good… — Amy Hempel
Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired. — Woody Allen
If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the… — Dale Carnegie
Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it… — Eben Alexander
Digital technology, you see, is not the villain here. It simply offers another dimension. I'm not sure if it's a farther remove from reality than… — Lewis Baltz
Music: what so many sentences aspire to be. — Mary Oliver
A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence. — Young-Ha Kim
I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I choose and comprehend… — Helen Prejean
A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And if there was… — Molly Harper
I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives. — Robert Gottlieb
The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life… — Bo Lozoff
I think any start has to be a false start because really there’s no way to start. You just have to force yourself to sit… — Elif Batuman
Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z.… — William Zinsser
Nails are the period at the end of the sentence. They complete the look — Prabal Gurung
Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on. — Philip Roth
Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded. — J I Packer
Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind. — Joyce Carol Oates
An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general and abstract, near… — John Updike
The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the… — Frederic Farrar
Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza.… — Joshua Foer
It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence at… — Jane Rule
What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And… — Nicole Krauss
You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller… — Anthony Horowitz
When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every… — Chris Avellone

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