Sentences Quote by Lyn Hejinian Download Open image “To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.” — Lyn Hejinian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sentences Stories
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer that the structure of stories should reflect the content of the story. — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
Whatever the case, oftentimes, for a story to feel complete to me, I need more than one point of view. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write. — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
But stories don't only speak; they are spoken to, by the circumstances under which they are written. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
You have to be precise. You have to be specific, but you want to be accurate. That is first and foremost. You want to… — Wolf Blitzer Copy Share Image
“The sky was packed which by appearing endless seems inevitable. The flag droops straight down. The horse in dry sand walks with a chirping… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet. — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
“A German goldsmith covered a bit of metal with cloth in the 14th century and gave mankind its first button. It was hard to… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
“Long time lines trail behind every idea, object, person, pet, vehicle, and event.” — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
“Writing’s initial situation, its point of origin, is often characterized and always complicated by opposing impulses in the writer and by a seeming dilemma that language creates and then cannot resolve. The writer experiences a conflict between a desire to satisfy a demand for boundedness, for containment and coherence, and a simultaneous desire for free, unhampered access to the world… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share
Putting facts by the thousands, into the world, the toes take off with an appealing squeak which the thumping heel follows confidentially, the way… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before,… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma. — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers. — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
“Drinking Shirley Temple with my Mary Janes on, let's say that every possibility waits” — Lyn Hejinian 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 matter what the routine is (coffee shop, someone else's house, my dining room table), I'm pretty fast. I go back to the start of whatever I'm working on, every half hour or so, and revise my… — Kelly Link Copy Share
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 that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that's already in the verb, every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure of who is doing what--these are the thousand and one… — William Zinsser Copy Share
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
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