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In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep… — Douglas Coupland
How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put… — John Steinbeck
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method. — James Thurber
I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced.… — Barack Obama
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt.… — John McPhee
I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique. — Scott Westerfeld
In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now… — Ian Mcewan
Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior. — Orson Scott Card
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a… — Don DeLillo
Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they… — Amy Bloom
The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence. — David Sedaris
the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you… — Joseph Campbell
It was in the spring that Josephine and I had first loved each other, or, at least, had first come into the full knowledge that… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write,… — Brenda Ueland
There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things… — Michael Ondaatje
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a… — George Orwell
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So… — Ayn Rand
I have the death sentence in seven genres. — Jasper Fforde
In my sentences I go where no man has gone before. — George W. Bush
How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every… — Jodi Picoult
A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and… — Henry David Thoreau
I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it. — Bill Bryson
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them. — Virginia Woolf
A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails… — Billy Collins

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