Feelings Quote by John Burnside

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

— Peter Straub

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

— Alfred Nobel

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

— Ravi Subramanian

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

Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Jayne Anne Phillips

“Decades ago, Rudolph Flesch discovered that readers were not just attracted to words, but to the breathing room between sentences and paragraphs. Long sentences…

— Harry Beckwith

“I think language beautifully full of the poetry of immanent clarification of some small pinprick of what living might mean. Fuck. Why else would…

— Jill Talbot

“For many writers the goal is a thousand words a day. For me, just give me one thought, and the words will take care…

— Garry Fitchett

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

— Anne Enright

A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel…

— James Patterson

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift…

— Jhumpa Lahiri