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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected. — Jeanette Winterson
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as… — Robert Benchley
I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and… — Joseph Joubert
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners. — William Warburton
I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble. — Channing Tatum
No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear. — Andy Rooney
Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily. — Andy Rooney
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through… — E L Doctorow
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And… — George Orwell
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house. — William Shenstone
You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life,… — Elbert Hubbard
I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think… — Allen Ginsberg
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire… — Roland Barthes
Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that… — Charles Sanders Peirce
The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane… — Barbara Ehrenreich
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work. — Joseph Joubert
There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified. — Mao Zedong
I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in… — Roger Angell
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. — Don DeLillo
I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like. — Don DeLillo
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with… — Don DeLillo
It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count. — Douglas Coupland
Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it… — Jonathan Raban
If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're… — Lynda Barry
I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of… — Franka Potente

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