Apologizing Quote by Fred Rodell

My resume showed membership on both the Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews, a credit impressive abroad where it was not generally known that Law…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“She wasn't stupid. She just didn't want to put her neuron power into long sentences.”

— Margaret Atwood

I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my…

— Lydia Davis

I write different kinds of sentences, depending on what the book is, and what the project is. I see my work evolving. I'm writing…

— Paul Auster

If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at…

— Félix J. Palma

“And then,” continued the clerk, “they send those students out at the end of their course and say, ‘Go off and use those big…

— Alexander McCall Smith

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

— Bruce Jackson

“Forest! They seek your trees to sleep among, With their long sentences hung. Forest!”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of…

— John Burnside

“We throw in as many fresh words as we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks…

— Dr. Seuss

Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh…

— Dr. Seuss

“It's wrong to take even those occasional long sentences in the Quixote with loose structures, and subdivide, tighten and correct them because they are…

— John Rutherford