A Quote by Gillian Flynn

I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence. — © Gillian Flynn
I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.
In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots.
Being typed is not important. For a while vou are typed as one thing. You get out of that. Then you are typed as something else. You can break away from everything except comedy. It's fatal to be typed as a comedian. You can't get out of that.
Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.
Life is the only sentence which doesn't end with a period.
Nails are the period at the end of the sentence. They complete the look
Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn't the writing; it's the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?
Not many people whose series gets cancelled get to come and put the period at the end of the sentence.
I finish the book so I can see how it's going to end. I write that first sentence, and if it's the right first sentence, it leads to the right second sentence and three years later you have a 500-page manuscript, but it really is like going on a trip, going on a journey. It's a voyage.
Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.
I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the sentence after it.
I once asked him what came at the end of the sentence... and he said "parole".
Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.
I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.
My whole career, I've tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I've done a pretty good job of not getting typed.
In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.
There was absolutely zero discourse between me or anybody at the studio with the NFL. None. The only exchange was one-sentence e-mails trying to arrange a meeting, before deciding to cancel the meeting. Period. End of story.
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