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1223 Sentences quotes by 868 unique authors

I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist… — Neil Gaiman
If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through… — Salman Rushdie
I've said it before: equations are the devil's sentences. The worst one is that quadratic equation, an infernal salad of numbers, letters, and symbols. — Stephen Colbert
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like… — Joshua Reynolds
After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation,… — Adolf Hitler
Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching. — Michael Heseltine
The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence,… — Janet Fitch
The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory… — Anthony Kennedy
Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half… — Goran Visnjic
To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence,… — Eric Maisel
I love Twitter, you know? I try to read everything I can on Twitter. You get so much nice feedback about stuff, you know you… — Tiesto
Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of… — Brigham Young
Ham will continue to be servant of servants, as the Lord decreed, until the curse is removed. will the present struggle free the slave? No;… — Brigham Young
I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them. — Karen Thompson Walker
It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty. — Karen Thompson Walker
Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway. — Karen Thompson Walker
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than… — Karen Thompson Walker
I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me,… — Karen Thompson Walker
Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character has, or the… — William Shatner
You don't think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me when the writing… — Karl Ove Knausgard
When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence. — Michael Hastings
I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose… — Daniel Alarcon
There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell… — Andy Rooney
You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do it… — Harper Lee

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