Sentences Quotes

I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.

I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking such things...' She let the sentence die its own death

I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right.

I dream of summing everything up in the greatest sentence ever written.

I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.

Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.

I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.

I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a place where you can do sentences like in a court.

There was alliteration happening all over the place in that sentence.

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence.

I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?

In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant.

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.

Let other people finish their sentences when they’re talking.

I get very involved in the internal logic of sentences.

I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.

In breif Sermone ane pregnant sentence wryte.

As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing else will ever change it.

I like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret].

I'm crap at interviews. I'm just not very good at sentences.

Hillary Clinton's economic plan is the biggest sitting duck to be blown to smithereens, you could do it in two sentences.

If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.

To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.

I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.

He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

Equations are the devil's sentences.

The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real people, how to properly pace a story, how to develop interesting characters.

It's a pity that Milosevic did not live through the trial and get his deserved sentence.

Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence?

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

Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes his time to finish all his sentences.

I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

If you really love someone, you shouldn't have to work at it, you finish each others' sentences and have the same sense of humor.

But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.

If there were ever two sentences that you will not respond well to, 'Don't move. There's a snake behind your foot,' is it.