All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.
That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!
Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.
Plain lies are dangerous.
The highest Beauty should be plain set.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain.
I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always refused to become glorious, instead stubbornly remaining plain, a headache, a sorrowful knot of language.
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.
Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.
Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.
I find my dress sense tends to be a bit of a mixture between high fashion and unique vintage pieces with a little bit of street trends. For example, I might find a really nice, suede dinner jacket that I'd wear with a basic plain white shirt and some chinos and a pair of Nike trainers.
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one. . . . It is soothing and enough.