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Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.

David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.20, Image Continuum Press

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.

Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.48, Random House

To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.

Lyn Hejinian (2013). “My Life and My Life in the Nineties”, p.56, Wesleyan University Press

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

"Land of Lost Souls" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. November 24, 2008.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5298, NYU Press

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

Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.215, Harvard University Press

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

Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.

Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster