Construction Quote by Don DeLillo

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes…

— Brian P. Cleary

I've always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland.

— George Saunders

I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.

— Gertrude Stein

Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at…

— Anonymous

I love the musicality of words.

— William Shatner

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

— Jeffery Deaver

I've always loved the flirtatious tango of consonants and vowels, the sturdy dependability of nouns and capricious whimsy of verbs, the strutting pageantry of…

— Dennis Miller

I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

— Dana Spiotta

The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open ourselves up…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

— Rickie Lee Jones

I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.

— Fernando Pessoa

I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to…

— Kate DiCamillo