Sentences Quotes

• Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences.

  

  William Shunn
  • Possible
  • Sentences

• What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

  

  Katy Lederer
  • Writing
  • Successful
  • Stamina

• The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

  

  Michael Ondaatje
  • Time
  • Should
  • Humans

• Last week a former Royal Marine who is the boyfriend of the model Kelly Brooks crashed into a bus stop while driving a van carrying a load of dead badgers. I mention this solely to remind you that linguists are not kidding when they say … that your command of English enables you to understand sentences that have never occurred before in the entire history of the human species.

  

  Geoffrey K. Pullum
  • Marine
  • Species
  • Former

• Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life.

  

  Crawford Kilian
  • Fighting
  • Sentences
  • Phrases

• Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed.

  

  Scott Adams
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things that people do

  

  William Zinsser
  • People
  • Writing
  • Remember

• Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences we write, 'Is that what I really think?'

  

  Carol Bly
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Enough

• Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Sometimes
  • Train
  • Brooklyn

• A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Passion
  • Driven

• Why these eyes without reading, but always ready to read? This mad will to be healed by the word when all sentences are only hiccups, shivers, sorry tics of the void?

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Reading
  • Sentences
  • Void

• If you read scripts, you would see people rarely speak like that in real life, in complete sentences.

  

  Paul Rust
  • Life
  • Scripts
  • Sentences

• One open, one closed. It was no wonder that the first image that came to mind when I thought of either of my sisters was a door. With Kirsten, it was the front one to our house, through which she was always coming in or out, usually in mid-sentence, a gaggle of friends trailing behind her. Whitney’s was the one to her bedroom, which she preferred to keep shut between her and the rest of us, always.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Mind
  • House
  • Wonder

• If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.

  

  Scott Turow
  • Fiction
  • Lessons
  • Sentences

• If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • School
  • Teacher
  • Tea

• The fact was I didn't want to look my age, but I didn't want to act the age I wanted to look either. I also wanted to grow old enough to understand that sentence.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Age
  • Enough
  • Sentences

• There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book.

  

  Terry Brooks
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Simple

• This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Problem
  • Waiting
  • Manage

• Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult and sometimes very hard to manage.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Sometimes
  • Difficult
  • Facts

• I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Words
  • Sentences
  • Sentiment

• I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Lying
  • Sentences

• I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Enjoy
  • Creating
  • Rhythm

• It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

  

  Katy Lederer
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Book

• We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any other; and that this order is the one which presents the elements of the proposition in the succession in which they may be most readily put together.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Together
  • Reason
  • Elements

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