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You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. — Anatole France
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police… — Stephen King
The words of the world want to make sentences. — Gaston Bachelard
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the… — Joan Didion
I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides. — Unknown Author
Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of… — Thomas Jefferson
It helps to read the sentence aloud. — Harry Kemelman
An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women. — Alain de Lille
Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other forms… — Sol Stein
I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry on the story… — John Steinbeck
Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like… — Lewis Thomas
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. — Barbara Tuchman
In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally in speech-that is,… — Elwyn Brooks White
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember… — William Zinsser
On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's… — Unknown Author
Many of us were taught that no sentence should begin with "but." If that's what you learned, unlearn it - there's no stronger word at… — William Zinsser
I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many… — James Joyce
When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't get that sentence… — Toni Morrison
Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the… — Unknown Author
In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along.… — Lewis Thomas
The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow. — Paul Horgan
Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does… — Kurt Vonnegut
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't… — Dorothy Parker
The death sentence is a barbaric act. — Nelson Mandela

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