Sentences Quote by Wilson Follett Download Open image “No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.” — Wilson Follett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sentences Should Together Way Writing
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one. — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book. — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to… — Margery Allingham 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
I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words. — Wilson Follett Copy Share Image
Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish. — Wilson Follett Copy Share Image
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency. — Wilson Follett Copy Share Image
Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them. — Wilson Follett Copy Share Image
The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers. — Wilson Follett 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… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
“I've been impressed by the extent to which one gets sentenced by one's own sentences. One explores certain things in play and then in… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
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… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
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