Bland Quote by George Saunders

I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose.

— Ravi Subramanian

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look…

— Don DeLillo

Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.

— Terry Pratchett

Whatever simplicity I've achieved in writing, I think I owe most of it to Jean Renoir and Hemingway: simple, declarative sentences. I've read some…

— Gene Wilder

My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the…

— Gretchen Rubin

I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.

— James Mercer

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.

— Lauren Mayberry

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

— Anne Enright

Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and…

— Ken Macrorie

I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew…

— Peter De Vries

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

You can't give any exciting speech without misremembering things.

— Lena Dunham