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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.
Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves.
The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
What Labor has said very clearly is that there should be up to life sentences for people who traffic in guns.
Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK.
I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose.
I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.
Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.
Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.
I love being married. I was single for a long time, and I just got so sick of finishing my own sentences.
Hillary Clinton's economic plan is the biggest sitting duck to be blown to smithereens, you could do it in two sentences.
Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.
I think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing.
Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.
When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing.
My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.
Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
I wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant.
I like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret].
The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible.
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.
I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences.
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.
The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.
The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.
In middle school I wrote a paper on Hemingway and none of the sentences had more than five words.
In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.
A passion-driven exultant man sings out
Sentences that he has never thought.
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
No matter what you say in carefully chosen sentences, girls will detect both the spoken and unspoken messages.
If you read scripts, you would see people rarely speak like that in real life, in complete sentences.
His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.
We should be extremely cautious about continuing to increase sentences as a routine response to concerns over crime.
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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.
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.
You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.
Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.
Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.
Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.
