Sentences Quotations

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.

When you reach the editing stage, it is often the case that you can get too involved with the story to detect errors. You can see words in your head that aren't actually there on the page, sentences blur together and errors escape you, and you follow plot threads and see only the images in your skull.

Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They studied meter with Ovid, plot construction with Homer, comedy with Aristophanes; they honed their prose style by absorbing the lucid sentences of Montaigne and Samuel Johnson.

I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.

I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.'

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things....

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

I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It's cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four herbs, representing four looters of plague victims' homes in 1665 who had their sentences reduced from burning at the stake to hanging for explaining the recipe that kept them from catching the plague.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

When I was writing the first few books, what I would do is write a bunch of sentences and then go back and expand and explode those sentences, pack as much into them as I could, so they'd kind of be like popcorn kernels popping... all this stuff in there to make the writing dense, and beautiful for its density.

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.

I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.

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

Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.

When you wake up, instead of checking emails on your phone, or counting your retweets, pick up a pen and scratch a few sentences into a notebook.

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing.

When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.

One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.

'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.

How many times have you opened a book, read the first few sentences and made a snap decision about whether to buy it? When it's your book that's coming under this casual-but-critical scrutiny, you want the reader to be instantly hooked. The way to accomplish this is to create compelling opening sentences.

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

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

I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am urged by many things and no things in particular.

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served.

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.

Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it's three pages long, and some people write a thank you note, and it's five sentences - that's me. I like to pare away words because I don't want to waste anyone's time.

I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to compose - and people who aren't related to me read them. To be paid to write things that matter to me is extraordinary.

In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.

If you're still wondering about details - how am I going to get these two to meet, or whatever - when you're writing, you can't pay proper attention to the sentences themselves.

Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head.

Untie the hands of state and federal judges and prosecutors, ... Give them options other than turning the courts into assembly lines that mass produce mandatory life-without-parole sentences for children.

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

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you.

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

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.

Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.

What we're doing is we're adding about three sentences to the state statue on scenic byways.

There are some sentences you cannot see yourself ever writing. 'I heartily endorse the Conservative Party' would be one. 'I look forward to Justin Bieber's new record' would be another.

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

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.

Many sentences are excessively long because mandatory sentencing policies do not allow sentencing judges the discretion to distinguish between hardened criminals and those amenable to rehabilitation and preparation for successful re-entry.

Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

So I try to stick with the structure, make the sentences work, and not to follow one sentence of 114 words with another of the same length.

She made it clear on the day she announced it. She commuted all death sentences to life imprisonment. Now the people are confused because of all the varieties added into it. But whatever it is, the government should implement the law.

Only 5 percent of the death sentences were actually implemented, and I think that would be difficult to accept if you were a victim or believe in the system because there is supposed to be some finality,

Only when the ETA killers served out their sentences will we be prepared to talk.

I guess I cringe when the discussion leads to, rather than books and sentences and characters and the stuff that writers are supposed to be concerned with, how to have an online presence and how many followers you have on Twitter. That stuff always makes me uncomfortable.

If we can rightfully say that we cannot execute children because of their mental capacity and age, then we should arrive at the same logic that we cannot give children life sentences without parole,

I don't know what the prosecution will ask for but the death penalty is still legal in Ethiopia. On a personal note that is not the penalty I would like to see applied, ... It is for the prosecution and courts to decide, but if I have any say on it I would prefer prison sentences rather than death sentences.

I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume. She always reminded me a little bit of my mother, so I feel a great affinity. I love the precision of Didion's writing. There's a construction and a craftsmanship to her sentences that's imbued with so much emotion.

I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... And think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries... Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences ...

I can't really put my words into sentences to say how it feels, ... (Rice) has been around for a long time and done a lot of great things. I don't really put myself next to Rice.

Given the facts and circumstances of this case, I find no compelling reasons to invalidate the sentences recommended by the jury and affirmed by the courts.

If that was true, we wouldn't see any death sentences coming out of Texas unanimous jury required. We wouldn't see any death sentences coming out of California, out of Virginia, out of Georgia, where unanimous juries are required.

He has some difficulty reading. Over the past couple of months I've learned how complicated the human brain is. Where most people take for granted their ability to put together whole sentences or convey their thoughts into words, Drew is having some difficulty with. He can speak. He just has difficulty at times expressing in words what it is he wants to say.

He (Matthews) told me he had just gotten out about three sentences when the student pulled the gun,

We are extremely pleased to see judges hand down some strict sentences and to see prosecutors actively pursuing these cases. This sends a message that Kentucky is aggressively pursuing cases of insurance fraud, and those who are caught won't get a slap on the wrist. They will pay for the crime.

Her sentences march under a harsh sun that bleaches color from them but bestows a peculiar, invigorating, Pascalian clarity.

Hopefully, this prosecution and the significant sentences that were imposed today send a message that hazing is a crime that has serious consequences for its perpetrators,

There is an act of prejudice against us, and there needs to be great efforts to correct this. Clear sentences and words should be put into the draft to remove uncertainty,

Guys, there's only one thing I hate more than bloggers who start sentences with 'guys' - and it's those mealy-mouth hipsters who crochet codpieces and their ye-olde-sideburned friends who pickle stuff and slaughter their own gluten-free goats.

There are single thoughts that contain the essence of the whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of large work

I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into something deep. But the fact remains that good sentences are hard won. Any writer worth a lick knows constructing a sentence, a paragraph, or a chapter is hard work.

It is good news that death sentences against the medical workers have not been confirmed. We hope today's decision can lead to a rapid and fair settlement to all concerned.

It is not fair that honest people who always paid their taxes were being denied a cut in income tax while those involved in the VAT scandal were given light sentences and those who failed to pay VAT in the past years were being offered an amnesty.

Over 700 investors, a number of them retirees, were defrauded by this scheme. Significant sentences send a strong message to those who would consider committing securities fraud.

I was the youngest; I had two imperious older brothers - I didn't get to often complete sentences at the dinner table. So writing was a way of saying what nobody asked me to say.

It doesn't seem reasonable for them to get life sentences and someone who committed three murders to get the death penalty.

It is expensive, but it's a commitment the county has made to keep prisoners in jail to serve sentences and to avoid overcrowding,

(Wentz) just gives me lyrics and phrases and sentences and ideas that are just kind of disembodies from any song, ... I'm his word editor and he's my music editor.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book -- what everyone else does not say in a book.

We really want to do what a number of provinces have looked at, to make the provisions of the Criminal Code that deal with conditional sentences more than a slap on the wrist. They need to be real sentences where people live up to the terms of those orders,

We can't lock everybody up forever or we will just turn back to the sort of society that founded Australia in the first place, with transportation and ridiculous sentences for minor crimes.

We have this sisterly thing going, you know, finish each others sentences and so on. She makes me feel really comfortable behind the microphone.

We are satisfied with the sentences that came down today and more importantly we are pleased that we had a successful prosecution and conclusion to this case.

What we've got going on is an unfair characterization that we can't defend against. I mean, they're pulling out three sentences of thousands of pages of cross-examination.

Tougher sentences being dished out are clearly making spammers feel the heat. However, spam is clearly not a thing of the past. E-mail users worldwide are still being bombarded by unsolicited messages, and, two years on, Gates' famous prediction now looks extraordinarily optimistic.

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.

My hobbies are run-on sentences.

Make no a complete sentence.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.

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