#sentences

David was catnip and kryptonite to me ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#inalienable #logical #picturesque #poetry #sentences

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#clog #delivers #every #fatal #help

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#begin #i #myself #recognize #seen

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm. ↗

— Joan Didion

#book #constantly #day #every #every day

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#face #i #like #look #off

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI. ↗

— Bob Graham

#already #been #cia #classified #fbi

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

— John Green

#ever #got #great #like #sentences

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

#contain #drawing #lines #machine #paragraph

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

#how #line #look #obliged #particular