A Quote by Susan Sontag

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.

Susan Sontag

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Susan Sontag
American - Author
January 16, 1933 - December 28, 2004

I've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the scene.

Matthew Specktor

The rhythmical unit of the syllable is at the back of all of it - the word, the phrase, the sentence, the syntax, the paragraph, and the way the heart moves when you read it.

Ali Smith

I like that I can write my name in Persian, and it's a small unit, like a graphical unit. I feel the same way about my name in English, it's a graphical unit.

Rostam Batmanglij

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

Havelock Ellis

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

Young women, the family unit is forever, and you should do everything in your power to strengthen that unit.

Ezra Taft Benson

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Charles Eastman

When I say that Kansas all rolls as one unit, they all roll as one unit. Like, everyone. They never leave anybody out.

Andrew Wiggins

A country becomes more prosperous in proportion to the rise in the invested capital unit per unit of its population.

Ludwig von Mises

[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together.

Neil MacGregor

I'm not with G-Unit for protection. I chose G-Unit because I felt like that's the place where the people would be more supportive of a person that is considered a rebel.

Mase

He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up, gradually, a complete unit of consciousness. And each unit of consciousness is the living unit of that great social, religious, philosophic idea towards which humankind, like an organism seeking its final form, is laboriously growing.

D. H. Lawrence

Every unit that is not supported is a defeated unit.

Maurice de Saxe

The book is a unit and is such a brilliant ergonomic unit.

David Gelernter

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On one level this truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. The language of my books has shaped me as a man. There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Don DeLillo

If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile.

Fred Wilson

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