Sentences Quote by Li-Young Lee

Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an…

— Michael Scott

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

— John Coltrane

The words of the world want to make sentences.

— Gaston Bachelard

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

— Jayne Anne Phillips

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need…

— Maya Lin

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

— John Coltrane

I've always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland.

— George Saunders

Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition. I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous.…

— Lynne Tillman

Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem…

— Masiela Lusha

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

— Alistair Cooke