Sentences Quote by Jincy Willett Download Open image “Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.” — Jincy Willett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sentences Writing
Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write. — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once. — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write. — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
“I thought, you see, that there must be some connection between money and memorable experience; between rare wine and rare intelligence. In short, I… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“I love you," Kenneth said, with terrible dispassion, "but I would not burn the Library of Alexandria for you"; and Anita, drily sobbing, cried,… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“With this book I hope what I always hope—that readers will nod their heads (not constantly, you know, but at the odd juncture) and… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“(D)ialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. 'When you're writing lines...you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And when we… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like a surprise… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“Fiction, when it's done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences and go… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
Honestly, my sales pitch when I was a kid was, 'You don't want these Girl Scout cookies, do you?' If I had to push… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have… — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
Thousands of Americans have given their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq upholding their oaths and defending this nation. Chelsea Manning broke her oath and… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
