Sentences Quotes

Don't have stories; have sentences.

[John Adams] is impressed with [Tomas] Jefferson's learning, but noted his silence during the debates in the Congress: "I never heard him utter three Sentences together."

This is the end of our sentence

I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head.

It helps to read the sentence aloud.

The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.

Every Saturday I read sentences in SPIEGEL that lack clarity.

Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.

The sentence im reading is terrific.

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.

I think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they're writing nice sentences even if it isn't adding up to much.

That American Taliban kid Johnny Walker was indicted today. Ten counts of terrorism. He could get 5 life sentences. In Taliban terms, that's 360 virgins.

You could teach [George] Carlin in college. It's the construction of the word and the order of things and how they go. How all those sentences are timed perfectly.

For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences.

The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.

But still, it looked completely natural, as if we had been kissing at the ends of sentences for ages, while the rest of the world was still hung up on punctuation.

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.

During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

I have studied all the sciences and all the major religions and can sum it up in one sentence. We become, have and attract what we think about and act upon correctly the most.

When I finish a sentence, after much labor, it's finished. A certain point comes at which you can't do any more work on it because you know it will kill the sentence.

You can't not like "The Great Gatsby." It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.

Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take refuge from myself.

There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

To me, the most telling thing is we have a man [Donald Trump] who cannot complete a sentence.

It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.

Suspect all your favorite sentences.

Suspect all of your favorite sentences.

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.

A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.

Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.

The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).

Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage; it means strong, simple, natural sentences.

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins.

When I'm choosing things, there's a level of intelligence I want to peel off, whether it's written in terribly simple sentences, whether it's from the point of view of a dog, or a 15-year-old boy.

I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.

Words are useless, especially sentences.