Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship.
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.
[Bart returns unexpectedly after being sentenced to death] Charlie: They said you was hung. Bart: And they was right.
One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.
It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.
Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're right.
I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.
It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future...
I like editing. Generally, you work under the assumption that everything can be shorter. I like to see if I can reconstruct a sentence. I find that enjoyable work.
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words. And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk, write, lecture, concoct sentences, search for formulations and amend them, so in the end no words were precise, their meanings were...
I once knew a fellow who committed robbery with violence, and he was sentenced to a long prison stretch and 12 strokes of the cat. He'd been injured during the robbery, so they put him in hospital to make him better so that they could make him worse....
The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period.
Karma is not a sentence already printed. It is a series of words that authors can arrange as she chooses.
His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.
Very often we write down a sentence then another what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.
Start with a word. A word leads to a sentence, which leads to a paragraph, which leads to a chapter, which leads to a manuscript, which leads to a book..... just start with a word!
People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.
That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence
Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.
