Language Quote by Jayne Anne Phillips

Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

— Per Petterson

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

— Anne Enright

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make…

— Anthony Bourdain

I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.

— Hector Tobar

I write what I write.

— Umberto Eco

More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As an author…

— Orhan Pamuk

I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.

— John Coltrane

I like to direct what I write.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me,…

— Yann Martel

“Punctuation is the pragmatics of written language.”

— M.B. Parkes

I write the way I write.

— Robert Kirkman

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

— Anne Carson