"The flesh of prose gets its shape and……" — Constance Hale
"The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar."
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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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A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless…
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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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More Bones Quotes
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Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your…
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to…
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While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot…
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My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire…
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No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the…
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We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we…
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If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in…
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People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog.…
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Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind…
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