#sentence

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one. ↗

— Herbert Bayard Swope

#eye #first #forget #give #last

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#down #even #five #four #i

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma. ↗

— Joey Santiago

#comma #end #exclamation #mark #nice

So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go. ↗

— George Saunders

#any #approach #become #crystal #deep

In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#completing #defense #found #get #grew

I would love for the time to come where somebody can talk about me and not have to talk about Britney and Christina in the same sentence. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#britney #christina #come #i #love

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#his #man #originality #seen #sentences

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#any #death #indeed #islamic #law

As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work. ↗

— Peter Straub

#excitement #felt #first #going #i

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

— Peter Straub

#henry #henry james #i #i write #james