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A clear sentence is no accident.
— William Zinsser
An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.
— Alain De Lille
Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK.
— Diana Athill
Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.
— Federico Chini
I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It's entirely too awful, having thoughts that refuse to become sentences.
— Caitlin R. Kiernan
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
— William Shenstone
Someone should take a vacuum cleaner to his sentences.
— John Searles
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
— E.L. Doctorow
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.
— Barrett Wendell
Every great novel begins with a single word. One word, followed by another and another and another. Sentences forming paths to that dream.
— Pamela Morris
I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.
— John McPhee
There's writing power in one word sentences and one sentence paragraphs. Wise authors use them. -Judith Briles
— Judith Briles
Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.
— Terry Pratchett
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences?
— Gian-Carlo Rota
We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.
— Josh Billings
She was writing a letter in her beautiful penmanship, her sentences all like well-made bracelets.
— Pat Conroy
Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
— Andy Rooney
I am made of words. When you cut me, I bleed sentences. When you read me, I speak to your soul.
— Chloe Thurlow
There are very few innocent sentences in writing.
— David Foster Wallace
By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
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
Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.
— Richard Hugo
Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to do.
— Ralph Fletcher
Take your hands off my sentences, asshole. I sweat blood for that shit.
— Scott Adlerberg
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
— Anne Enright
Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences.
— William Shunn
When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences.
— Michael Hyatt
It helps to read the sentence aloud.
— Harry Kemelman
Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.
— James Patterson
I think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they're writing nice sentences even if it isn't adding up to much.
— James Patterson
Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences
— Sylvia Plath
I've always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland.
— George Saunders
I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.
— Jacqueline Woodson
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
A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Suspect all your favorite sentences.
— Kenneth Atchity
To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
— Ernest Hemingway,
