Bones Quote by Constance Hale Download Open image “The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.” — Constance Hale ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bones Flesh Grammar Prose Shapes Writing
Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore… — B. J. Chute Copy Share Image
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.” — Arthur Plotnick Copy Share Image
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you’ve said… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's the line… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear. — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention. — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and… — Catharine Arnold Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“All right, you deadly little ghostlings,” I muttered. “Mama says go back to bed! - Cat” — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
