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Constance Hale has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and…
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Verbose is not a synonym for literary.
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I’m a sucker for this stuff. The @ is called chiocciola (snail) in Italian! The & was once taught as a letter…
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Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should…
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Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.
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Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence…
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A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting.…
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Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice…
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There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to…
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Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs…
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Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle…
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In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out…
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more youre conscious of the other sides posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more…
— Daniel H. Pink
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Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.
— Constance Hale
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In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to…
— Will Schwalbe
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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
— Idries Shah
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization,…
— Garth Stein
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People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
— Laura Schlessinger
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Seth laughed when he saw me. “Hey,” I said, poking him with my foot, “be nice.” “I think this is the first…
— Richelle Mead
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Come to think of it, that word (choice) shouldn't be applied to people's destinies. Ever. Choice should be relegated to TV and…
— J R Ward
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A girl can dream." His eyebrows rose. "Is that what you dream about? Being a monster?" "Not exactly," I said, frowning at…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I'm not going to lose you, Kaylee. No matter what I have to do, or whom I have to fight. Even if…
— Rachel Vincent
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If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or…
— Poppy Z. Brite
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One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you…
— Robert Morgan
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