#sentence

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence. ↗

— Alice Walker

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In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home. ↗

— Len Wein

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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope. ↗

— Paul Goodman

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You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever. ↗

— John Green

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When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

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Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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