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Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance. — Gustave Flaubert

Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences! — Douglas R. Hofstadter

Let me live. Keep me alive. Both sentences so close in English, but very different meaning. — Aleksandr Voinov

I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences. — Gary Soto

There was something in the music of the accent that Douglass liked: it was as if the Cork people put long lazy hammocks in their sentences. — Colum McCann

It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty. — Karen Thompson Walker

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
(On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers) — Samuel Johnson

Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be. — Wayne Dyer

Can we not say 'dumped' and 'Bellas' in the same sentence, please? — CM Punk

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers. — Lauren Mayberry

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life. — Etheridge Knight

I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives. — Robert Gottlieb

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality. — Bruce Jackson

Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. — Kato Lomb

During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together. — John Adams

There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences. — Patrice Nganang

You're talking!"
"I know I am."
"And making sense!"
"Thank you kindly."
"And in sentences!"
"I've noticed." - Stefan and Elena — L.J.Smith

In every cell in every body in every living thing, strings of words make sentences, meanings locked together — Johnny Rich

There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia. — Branford Marsalis

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house. — William Shenstone

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences. — Antjie Krog

Think long thoughts in short sentences. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end. — Daniel Wallace

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. — Anatole Broyard

Self-confidence can be defined in two sentences. (1) I trust myself to face life's challenges and (2) I trust myself to follow my dreams and goals. — Gudjon Bergmann

I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing. — Keith Gessen

My life was being planned in sentences that started with 'We' instead of 'I', yet it felt like the most natural transition in the world. — Heather Demetrios

How do you do that?"
"Do what?"
"Say nothing at all for months on end, then kill me dead in three sentences? — Garrett Leigh

In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences. — Tim Frick

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. — Mary Roach

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

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual. — Potter Stewart

Don't put Banana and Hammock in the same sentence — Tony Horton

Her letter bled from word to word, in three sour sentences. — Abby Slovin

While my scarcely controlled rage flew from my mouth in sentences I hoped would be, perhaps not then but perhaps later, like knives to her brain. — Lorrie Moore

She was writing a letter in her beautiful penmanship, her sentences all like well-made bracelets. — Pat Conroy

We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences. — Josh Billings

I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die. — Nick Cave

There are very few innocent sentences in writing. — David Foster Wallace

I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life. — Tom Robbins

I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful. — Rae Hachton

I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences. — Graham Parke

Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful. — Jerry Leiber

And even though her journal was just random sentences, she did spin stories in my head. The sound of her voice made dreams happen. — Scott Westerfeld

Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences. — Martin Amis

A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly. — John Irving

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too? — Edgar Degas

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down. — Ernest Hemingway,

Out to sea, the calm lagoon waters were darkening, while the comets overhead glowed brighter, omens in the gloaming. — Julian May

In my sentences I go where no man has gone before. — George W. Bush

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one. — Herbert Bayard Swope

Jimmy may have only a few sentences in his repertoire, but he knows to keep going when pretty girls pay attention to him. — Ned Vizzini

Abby: In another life, I could love you.
Travis: I might love you you in this one. — Jamie McGuire

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them. — Karen Thompson Walker

There's writing power in one word sentences and one sentence paragraphs. Wise authors use them. -Judith Briles — Judith Briles

All truth has to be expressed in sentences ... the type of sentence in nature is a flash of lightning. — Ernest Fenollosa

The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold. — Jhumpa Lahiri

It is no less difficult to write a sentence in a recipe than sentences in Moby Dick. So you might as well write Moby Dick. — Annie Dillard

God, let me think clearly and brightly; let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences, let me someday see who I am. — Sylvia Plath

My story can't be summed up in two or three sentences; it can't be packaged into something neat and simple that people would immediately understand. — Nicholas Sparks

I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away. — Damon Galgut

Sentences are trenches you can take cover in. They are not wildly comfortable. They are not bulletproof. But they can give you the illusion of safety. — Meg Howrey

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words. — Shepard Smith

Express your most powerful thought in the shortest sentence. — Roy Peter Clark

If you give me six sentences written by the most innocent of men, I will find something in them with which to hang them. — Armand Jean Du Plessis Richelieu

Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences — Sylvia Plath

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners. — William Warburton

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words ... Statements are made, words or sentences are used. — J.L. Austin

Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Such sentences always end in silence, no matter how they may begin--indeed, this is the very essence of fate: that which we never quite manage to say. — Matthew Flaming

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. — W. Somerset Maugham

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. — Jean Rostand

There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written. — Ellen G. White

Silence held the bubble of the world in its grip. — Terry Pratchett

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences. — Anne McCaffrey

I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides. — Pamela Frankau

I began to forget myself
in the middle
of sentences. — Margaret Atwood

I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them. — Virginia Woolf

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. — Don DeLillo

Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice. — Epictetus

It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death. — Richard K. Morgan

To be successful in writing, use short sentences. — Ernest Hemingway,

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. — Ella Maillart

Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway. — Karen Thompson Walker

Motherfuckers will read a book that's one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we're taking over. — Junot Diaz

As I sat in a small room constructing what seemed to me awkward sentences and paragraphs, McCone was out having exciting adventures. — Marcia Muller

If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516 — Felix J. Palma

I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right. — Martin Amis

Jake had begun to carry chalk in his pockets, also. He wrote brief sentences. He tried to word them so that a man would think. — Carson McCullers

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever. — John Green

Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences? — Eugene Mirman

I dream of summing everything up in the greatest sentence ever written. — Mason Cooley

The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning. — Matthew Henry

When love arrests your heart, pray she sentences it for eternity. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

We live longer
but less precisely
and in shorter sentences. — Wislawa Szymborska

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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences. — John Thorn