Gals Quote by Geraldine Brooks

I can be just as effective with a quick retort or a one-liner than with a big paragraph.

— Alan Colmes

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

— Carmen Laforet

I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in, I replace…

— Martin Millar

Must be 3-7 sentences. Yeah, I'm only writing 3.

— Anonymous

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it

— Clifford Geertz

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

— Wislawa Szymborska

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'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

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

— Anne Enright

I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.

— Miriam Margolyes

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

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

— Mae West