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I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability… — Tom Perrotta
I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I… — Ron Rash
Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a… — Joseph Joubert
In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward. — Amy Tan
It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it… — Martin Amis
In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was… — Joe Scarborough
You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say… — Anne Bernays
The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed,… — Naomi Novik
Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, only in fact. When I take a sentence in my hand, raise it… — Donald Hall
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. — Ella Maillart
I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness. — V.S. Naipaul
I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing now… — Antonio Gramsci
I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. — Janet Flanner
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last… — F L Lucas
As Aunt Naomi was listing all the things she was going to do to help this person, her friend stopped her in mid-sentence. "Naomi, girl,"… — Patti LaBelle
Life is the expression of tone. In that sentence is the basic principle of Chiropractic. — Daniel D. Palmer
The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form. — Marshall McLuhan
There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you… — Terry Brooks
How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into elastic patterns called… — Joyce Carol Oates
A clear sentence is no accident. — William Zinsser
The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something… — Paul Reubens
This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't. — Douglas Hofstadter
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. — Nicholson Baker
If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the… — John Irving
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes. — Polly Toynbee

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