Sentences Quotes - Page 35

• It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Forgiving, Syntax, Phrases

  Richard K. Morgan (2003). “Altered Carbon”, Del Rey

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• The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings, the grad students or interns who tell you about syndromes, conditions, deviances, and disorders, and they love, love, love to talk. They speak in half-sentences with a knowing smile-squint, watch you falter at the pause, and then keep talking.

  Craig Clevenger

  Talking, Knowing, Bored

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• Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.

  Michael Scott

  Way, Sometimes, Conversation

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• Michael Koryta is that rare author who is at once a compelling story teller and a fantastic writer. From the first sentence of THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD, you'll be under his spell. His characters are living, breathing people you'll care about; his setting is a place you'll visit and stay-long after you've decided to leave because you're scared. You can't leave; you're trapped. There are too many nerve-jangling, beautifully written, razor sharp moments and you won't want to miss a single one. This is an absolute sizzler.

  Lisa Unger

  Character, Breathing, Long

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• Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.

  Bonnie Friedman

  Writing, Successful, Keep Believing

  Bonnie Friedman (1993). “Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer's life”

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• 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.

  Scott Berkun

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Some things you just can't explain. You don't even try. You don't know where to start. All your sentences would jumble up like a giant knot if you opened your mouth. Any words you used would come out wrong.

  R. J. Palacio

  Trying, Giants, Mouths

  R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.166, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Infinite, Makers, Creative Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.13, North Atlantic Books

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• In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

  Arthur Koestler

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Struggle

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• Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

  Vera Nazarian

  Fall, Army, Soldier

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• The last sentence in a piece is another adventure. It should open the piece up.

  Joan Didion

  Adventure, Pieces, Lasts

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• Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

  Joe Abercrombie

  Book, Thinking, Way

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• Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be.

  Wayne Dyer

  World, Want, Materials

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• I began to forget myself
  in the middle
  of sentences.

  Margaret Atwood

  Forget, Middle

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems: 1965-1975”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

  Winston Churchill

  Firsts, First Time

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• 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.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Loyalty, Pages, Logic

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• Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just figuring out that if people call you and say, 'I've got this great, wonderful idea', you don't spend 10 minutes once you know in the first sentence that it isn't a great, wonderful idea...Don't be polite and go through the whole process.

  Warren Buffett

  Stupid, Mean, Ideas

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• I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.

  Amy Hempel

  People, Stories, Levels

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• I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.

  Amy Hempel

  Writing, Stories, Ends

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• Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Editing, Whining

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• If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.

  Dale Carnegie

  Talking, Ideas, Long

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.82, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn’t.

  Eben Alexander

  Brain, Body, Spirit

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• Digital technology, you see, is not the villain here. It simply offers another dimension. I'm not sure if it's a farther remove from reality than analogue. I think if we can speak of reality, if reality and representation can be spoken of in the same sentence, if reality even exists any more, digital is simply another way of encoding that reality.

  Lewis Baltz

  Technology, Reality, Thinking

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• Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

  Mary Oliver

  Aspire

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• A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

  Young-Ha Kim

  Writing, Next, Firsts

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