Sentences Quotes

I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

My hobbies are run-on sentences.

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

Make no a complete sentence.

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story best. Even my articles are more literary than ordinary news stories.

They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation.

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

See, when you lie to me it hurts," Rixon said, swiping an imaginary tear. "I thought we had something special. I thought our joint eternal sentences of damnation were our bond.

I love being married. I was single for a long time, and I just got so sick of finishing my own sentences.

Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences we write, 'Is that what I really think?'

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.

Softie was not a word you could use in the same sentence as Eric.

I think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing.

There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley.

I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the difficulty level of writing sentences and thinking up new ideas.

There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive.

Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life.

I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.

Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a whole series of books.

In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.

Just as words in their proper places form sentences, each individual strike must be done in the proper order to get the desired result: a flat stone blade.

I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My problem with this poem is ..."

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do?

I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.

In middle school I wrote a paper on Hemingway and none of the sentences had more than five words.

I wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant.

Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions that caused me to weep like a child.

Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.

If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.

Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.

Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.

There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it. A simple stroll in the hallway calls for paragraphs, sentences in your head, decisions galore.

Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price the law reviews pay for their precious dignity.

There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

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

It blew my mind, reading Swing Time, that I could take any sentence in the book, and it was one of the most beautiful sentences written in English.

My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.