Language Quote by James A. Michener

“These words on the screen represented her latest project, an attempt at a series of commercial, discreetly feminist crime novels. She had read all…

— David Nicholls

I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.

— Earl Weaver

“what we’re hoping for in that opening sentence is the sense that something is about to change (and not necessarily for the better). Simply”

— Lisa Cron

“No one dared do it before, not in front of the King (opening sentence)”

— Gordon Thomas

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

— Michael Cunningham

“Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for a moment,…

— Colm Toibin

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

— William Gibson

I have no gifts to offer you, nor songs to comfort you... But I have six words to tell you... I'll always be here…

— Anonymous

“One cool morning—a rainstorm had swept through the night before; now the City of Angels sparkled like Eden itself—he was walking between soundstages in…

— James Kaplan

“Let not your hearts be troubled,’” the cardinal of Milan said. “Those six words of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, are more powerful…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“Don’t wait. Writers are the only artists I know of who expect to get somewhere by waiting. Everyone knows you have to dance to…

— Daniel Quinn