Best Quote by Karen Thompson Walker

I love sentences. I love characters. But most of all, perhaps, I love to work on plot, and that may be where my natural…

— Ned Beauman

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.

— Lauren Mayberry

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

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look…

— Don DeLillo

When you are a sentence-based writer, they have to be good. They have to be really on the spot. Because when you don't have…

— Per Petterson

My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the…

— Amy Bloom

I'm very concerned with questions of language. This is what I think of when I think of myself as a writer: I'm someone who…

— Don DeLillo

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so are we, sentence by sentence, until…

— Louise Erdrich

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

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Nothing feels better than constructing a beautiful sentence.

— Leandra Medine

“Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.”

— Federico Chini

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

— Anne Enright