Curiosity Quote by Pat Conroy

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced -…

— Jim Bakker

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what…

— Randall Munroe

“I had declared in public my desire to be a writer ... I wanted to develop a curiosity that was oceanic and insatiable as…

— Pat Conroy

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

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

“Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Soon enough my mind hooked onto the missing guitars and the locked door and the hole filled up with clues and suspects and all…

— Sara Gran

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

“Life’ and ‘Fair’ were two words that just didn’t belong in a sentence together – unless the word ‘Not’ was in there, too.”

— Nikki Sex

The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how…

— Rick Yancey