Quotes of: Sentencing Keyword

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.

James Patterson

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.

Jack Henry Abbott

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

Jackson Browne

Forget I ever referred to my mother and screwing in the same sentence. That's just .... wrong. On so many levels.

Emma Chase

'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.

Greg Iles

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

you could wait to do something for God, but if He waited to do something for you, you couldn't finish reading this sentence...

Garrett McCoy

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Jules Renard

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

Jeff Greenfield

I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.

Carl Hiaasen

One 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.

Don DeLillo

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.

E. L. Doctorow

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

Albert Brooks

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

Aidan Chambers

I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.

Asghar Farhadi

A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying.

Aisha Mirza

It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.

Life

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

William Gibson

Pops: How about you finish this sentence for me, Jason? When a girl says no she means... Justin, looking desperately at me: No? Nana: Are you sure? Justin, shifting uncomfortably: I'm sure. No means no. Nana: Well look at you. You got one right. Now ...

Alice in Zombieland

He liked to start sentences with okay, so. It was a habit he had picked up from the engineers. He thought it made him sound smarter, thought it made him sound like them, those code jockeys, standing by the coffee machine, talking faster than he could...

Sorry Please Thank You: Stories

I think the reason why I don't read so much, is because as I have observed, whole books all boil down to a drop of essence. You can read a book full of ten thousand words and at the end, sum it up in one sentence; I am more for the one sentence. I am...

C. JoyBell C.