Extent Quote by Lyn Hejinian

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't…

— Morris Gleitzman

Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could…

— Mickey Rooney

“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

“Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the liquor weaker, the gods kinder, the dice hotter - it might have all ended up…

— Mickey Rooney

“A forgotten sentence or story from years ago can come back to offer an invisible hand and guide you to a decision.”

— Hwang Bo-Reum

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite...

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into…

— Adam Ross

I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry on the…

— John Steinbeck

I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

— Ernest Hemingway

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should…

— William Strunk, Jr

The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop.

— Susan Sontag

I'll have a sentence in my head that's kind of beautiful and interesting, but I'm not sure why or where it's coming from. So…

— Don Hertzfeldt

The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.

— Joyce Carol Oates

A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes…

— Constance Hale

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