It rarely adds anything to say, 'In my opinion' - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.
I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
You need a very, exceptionally clear vision. And to me, a vision is something that you can say in one sentence. The fewer the words the better.
I agree with President Obama and Attorney General Holder that we need to reform our criminal sentencing laws.
I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.
It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.
I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.
My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom.
I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.
My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.'
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question. [A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]
Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.
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.
