"A sentence can offer a moment of quiet,……" — Constance Hale
"A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb."
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14 Quotes by Constance Hale
Constance Hale has 14 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is…
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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…
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Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the…
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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…
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Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news…
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Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and…
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In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can…
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Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear.
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More Crackle Quotes
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once…
— Alexander Pope
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When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners…
— Pat Riley
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I thought I was the only one who still enjoyed his record collection, but after reading 'How Records Got Their…
— Unknown Author
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Place a lump of fresh butter in a pan or egg dish and let it melt - that is, just…
— Fernand Point
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There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and…
— Leigh Bardugo
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Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of…
— Jerry Saltz
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Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity. "No,"…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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J.D. cleared his throat and pushed the button on the intercom. “Uh, Payton, hi. It’s J.D.” Dead silence. Then another…
— Julie James
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There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in…
— Harper Lee
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All I heard was the blood rushing through my ears, and the distant rumble and crackle of the Lake of…
— Rick Riordan
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Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots…
— William S. Burroughs
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Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give…
— Vera Nazarian
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