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I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence… — Brenda Ueland
An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have… — Sarah Dessen
I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence. — Matthew Tobin Anderson
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading,… — Annie Proulx
For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle… — Walker Percy
Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I… — Gideon Defoe
Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write. — Jincy Willett
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. — Jacques Barzun
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or… — W. Somerset Maugham
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set… — Saint Augustine
Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon… — Francis Bacon
What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was… — Tom Robbins
That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there… — Charles Bukowski
You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down, memorized it, and… — John Green
What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice… — Annie Proulx
If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters… — Michael Ende
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance. — Gustave Flaubert
Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time listening to what… — Terry Pratchett
She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence. — Zadie Smith
Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone. — Richard Hugo
Getting cut off from the knights' magic rock also required a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom. (Those of you in the Hushlands,… — Brandon Sanderson
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up… — George Eliot
Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread carefully to see… — William Safire
If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him? — Neal Stephenson

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