"There is no one way to render an……" — Constance Hale
"There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive."
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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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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 Distinctive Quotes
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not…
— Francis of Assisi
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous…
— Ruben Blades
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and…
— Robert Browning
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I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are…
— Sandra Cisneros
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The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a…
— Carl G. Fisher
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Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing…
— Taisen Deshimaru
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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work…
— Northrop Frye
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Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said…
— Ronald Reagan
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There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
— Benjamin E. Mays
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The grace of forgiveness, because God Himself has paid the price, is a Christian distinctive and stands splendidly against our…
— Ravi Zacharias
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