|

|

Advertisements

Sentences Quotes

Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of my lessons will give you the insight to appreciate fine sentences and the vocabulary to talk about them Picture Quote #1

There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive Picture Quote #1

Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle to let them glide, rather than thrash at sea Picture Quote #1

There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want to write, even though they find crafting sentences and paragraphs unpleasant. They hope there is a way to write without writing. I can tell you with certainty there isn’t one Picture Quote #1

Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they’ve already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims Picture Quote #1

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldn’t ask for anything better. It’s as near to godliness as I can get Picture Quote #1

I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction Picture Quote #1

It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you are reading this... the lines of our lives have intersected. For the length of these few sentences, we meet here. It is no accident that you are reading this. This moment has been waiting for you, I have been waiting for you. Remember me Picture Quote #1

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that Picture Quote #1

Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that I flew into a rage and hurled it at the wall after reading the first few sentences. I was spoilt for any other form of literature, and the mental torment I endured was comparable to the agony of unrequited love compounded by the withdrawal symptoms associated with a severe addiction Picture Quote #1

I love being married. I was single for a long time, and I just got so sick of finishing my own sentences Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold Picture Quote #1

Acrid bitterness inevitably seeps into the lives of people who harbor grudges and suppress anger, and bitterness is always a poison. It keeps your pain alive instead of letting you deal with it and get beyond it. Bitterness sentences you to relive the hurt over and over Picture Quote #1

When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences Picture Quote #1

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry Picture Quote #1

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me Picture Quote #1

Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don’t get it. I don’t get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I’m doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn’t think you ever had Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

Grammar is what gives sense to language... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar Picture Quote #1

My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I’m more your paragraph kind of gal Picture Quote #1

It’s not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don’t take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it style. What you’re trying to do is be faithful to your perceptions and transmit them as faithfully as you can. I say these sentences until they sound right. There’s no objective reason why they’re right. They just sound right to me Picture Quote #1

You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It’s far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character’s skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into Picture Quote #1

Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us into new awarenesses. Every good writer, marching to his or her own drumbeat, marks out a vibrational field as home territory. The cadences of our sentences carry echos of ancestry and influence as surely as the double helix that orchstrates the life of the body Picture Quote #1

I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

I’ve said it before: equations are the devil’s sentences. The worst one is that quadratic equation, an infernal salad of numbers, letters, and symbols Picture Quote #1

The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust Picture Quote #1

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them Picture Quote #1

It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty Picture Quote #1

Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway Picture Quote #1

I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it’s one of the most satisfying parts of writing Picture Quote #1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - 11

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Advertisements

Text Quotes

Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of my lessons will give you the insight to appreciate fine sentences and the vocabulary to talk about them (Sentences Quotes) There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive (Sentences Quotes) Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle to let them glide, rather than thrash at sea (Sentences Quotes) There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want to write, even though they find crafting sentences and paragraphs unpleasant. They hope there is a way to write without writing. I can tell you with certainty there isn’t one (Sentences Quotes) Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they’ve already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims (Sentences Quotes) In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil (Sentences Quotes) Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldn’t ask for anything better. It’s as near to godliness as I can get (Sentences Quotes) I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction (Sentences Quotes) It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you are reading this... the lines of our lives have intersected. For the length of these few sentences, we meet here. It is no accident that you are reading this. This moment has been waiting for you, I have been waiting for you. Remember me (Sentences Quotes) I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that (Sentences Quotes) Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that I flew into a rage and hurled it at the wall after reading the first few sentences. I was spoilt for any other form of literature, and the mental torment I endured was comparable to the agony of unrequited love compounded by the withdrawal symptoms associated with a severe addiction (Sentences Quotes) I love being married. I was single for a long time, and I just got so sick of finishing my own sentences (Sentences Quotes) The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold (Sentences Quotes) Acrid bitterness inevitably seeps into the lives of people who harbor grudges and suppress anger, and bitterness is always a poison. It keeps your pain alive instead of letting you deal with it and get beyond it. Bitterness sentences you to relive the hurt over and over (Sentences Quotes) When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences (Sentences Quotes) When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry (Sentences Quotes) For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me (Sentences Quotes) Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don’t get it. I don’t get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I’m doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn’t think you ever had (Sentences Quotes) Grammar is what gives sense to language... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar (Sentences Quotes) My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I’m more your paragraph kind of gal (Sentences Quotes) It’s not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don’t take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it style. What you’re trying to do is be faithful to your perceptions and transmit them as faithfully as you can. I say these sentences until they sound right. There’s no objective reason why they’re right. They just sound right to me (Sentences Quotes) You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It’s far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character’s skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into (Sentences Quotes) Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us into new awarenesses. Every good writer, marching to his or her own drumbeat, marks out a vibrational field as home territory. The cadences of our sentences carry echos of ancestry and influence as surely as the double helix that orchstrates the life of the body (Sentences Quotes) I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living (Sentences Quotes) I’ve said it before: equations are the devil’s sentences. The worst one is that quadratic equation, an infernal salad of numbers, letters, and symbols (Sentences Quotes) The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust (Sentences Quotes) I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them (Sentences Quotes) It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty (Sentences Quotes) Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway (Sentences Quotes) I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it’s one of the most satisfying parts of writing (Sentences Quotes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - 11