Sentences Quotes - Page 7

I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head.

This is the end of our sentence

Don't have stories; have sentences.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.

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.

Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.

If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.

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

I wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant.

I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do?

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

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

There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley.

Softie was not a word you could use in the same sentence as Eric.

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

Make no a complete sentence.

It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.