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I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to… — Louis Begley
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before… — Rick Bass
We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100… — Joan Blades
Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence. — Stephen Baldwin
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well. — Aidan Chambers
The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy. — Chris Cleave
For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with… — Jonathan Ames
I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them. — Stephen Amell
The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write… — Jonathan Dee
I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own… — Lydia Davis
I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly,… — Anne Enright
People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and… — Ioan Gruffudd
There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't… — Trey Gowdy
I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words… — Peter Ackroyd
I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences. — Roger Zelazny
Words are useless, especially sentences. — Madonna Ciccone
I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out of me like… — Glenda Millard
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… — Michael Cunningham
If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not. — Nancy Grace
Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer… — Amy Hempel
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm… — Barry Hannah
Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes. — Kamala Harris
Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a… — Lianne La Havas
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple… — Marilyn Hacker
See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was. — Greg Iles

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