I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.
In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences.
Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.
Suspect all of your favorite sentences.
The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop.
Broadly speaking, Keynesianism means that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on its own autonomous course, but the government, when there's a recession, compensates by employment, by expansion of purchasing power, and in boom times corrects by being a restraining force. But it controls the great flow of demand into the economy, what since Keynesian times has been the flow of aggregate demand. That was the basic idea of Keynes so far as one can put it in a couple of sentences.
Equations are the devil's sentences.
Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.
Just as words in their proper places form sentences, each individual strike must be done in the proper order to get the desired result: a flat stone blade.
Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take refuge from myself.
I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.
That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?
I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.
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.
A clear sentence is no accident.
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.
Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.
almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by the pound, like groceries. It actually takes a great deal more discipline to be able to leave out rather than to throw in everything. This means that you have to say in one sentence precisely what you mean, instead of saying sort of what you kind of mean in hundreds of sentences and hoping the sum total will add up.
What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.
I like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret].