A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.
In middle school I wrote a paper on Hemingway and none of the sentences had more than five words.
The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.
Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.
Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.
I'm crap at interviews. I'm just not very good at sentences.
Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
The sentence im reading is terrific.
I think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they're writing nice sentences even if it isn't adding up to much.
If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516
Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.
You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so it’s that compression. The best code is poetry.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
I always tell my students to write the story all the way through, not to play with the language and fall in love with sentences that you then have to cut. I actually find that really difficult to do; there's something so demoralizing about looking at a pile of not very great sentences. As I ease into writing every morning, I tweak a sentence and then tweak a paragraph.
Speak and live in simple sentences. Bring closure -- put a period to -- those experiences that you don't want to carry on forever and ever. Use commas in those places where you're still growing. . . and use exclamation points at the end of every lesson.
Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?
I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it
I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks. . . or lay down on a couch, 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, in sections of two, three or four lines each.