#sentence

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

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

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

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us. ↗

— Steve Almond

#freaks #america

What else exhausts like sustained deception? ↗

— Leif Enger

#deception

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. ↗