Arrows Quote by 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…

— Constance Hale

I’m a sucker for this stuff. The @ is called chiocciola (snail) in Italian! The & was once taught as a letter of the…

— Constance Hale

Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each…

— Constance Hale

Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear.

— Constance Hale

Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old…

— Constance Hale

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.

— Constance Hale

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a…

— Constance Hale

Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.

— 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…

— Constance Hale

Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even…

— Constance Hale

Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle to let…

— Constance Hale