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Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail Picture Quote #1

You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next? Picture Quote #1

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here Picture Quote #1

Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow them up: those are terrorists. Some people speak to you and their words blow you up: what would you call those people? Life is a condemned cell... That’s the only way to protect yourself... to understand that you’re always under sentence of death and to try to get a temporary remission Picture Quote #1

Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of my lessons will give you the insight to appreciate fine sentences and the vocabulary to talk about them Picture Quote #1

A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb Picture Quote #1

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There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And if there was one thing I was familiar with it was pleasing... There’s no way to finish that sentence without embarrassing myself Picture Quote #1

The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not Picture Quote #1

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I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I choose and comprehend it. I can write a complete sentence and punctuate it correctly. If I need help, I can call on judges, attorneys, educators, ministers. I wonder what I would be like if I had grown up without such protections and supports. What cracks would have turned up in my character? Picture Quote #1

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion Picture Quote #1

Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldn’t ask for anything better. It’s as near to godliness as I can get Picture Quote #1

Don’t get discouraged if you’re hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong. You’re allowed to get it wrong, as many times as you need to; you only need to get it right once Picture Quote #1

No sentence can be effective if it contains facts alone. It must also contain emotion, image, logic, and promise Picture Quote #1

I think hope is not simply looking around and saying that everything’s great – that’s just ridiculous. For hope to have substance, it has to acknowledge the pain. But hope is saying that’s not the final story. It’s not saying pain doesn’t exist, but it’s saying there’s not a period at the end of that sentence. It’s still being written Picture Quote #1

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I feel it’s important to talk about the complex issues affecting us. And these are complex issues. I think it’s insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence Picture Quote #1

There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book Picture Quote #1

I’m flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven’t been a ton of them Picture Quote #1

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it’s very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence Picture Quote #1

I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I’m angry, words burst out of me like a shout, or, if I’m sad, they spill out of me like tears, and if I’m happy my words are like a song. If that happens it’s one of my rules not to change them because they’re coming out of my heart and not my head, and that’s the way they’re meant to be Picture Quote #1

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not Picture Quote #1

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Obviously, in journalism, you’re confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it’s in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one Picture Quote #1

Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don’t know what I want to express until a sentence comes to my head that will sum up everything about how I’m feeling at the time Picture Quote #1

I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It’s a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function Picture Quote #1

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence Picture Quote #1

Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself Picture Quote #1

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method Picture Quote #1

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Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail (Sentence Quotes) You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next? (Sentence Quotes) Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here (Sentence Quotes) Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow them up: those are terrorists. Some people speak to you and their words blow you up: what would you call those people? Life is a condemned cell... That’s the only way to protect yourself... to understand that you’re always under sentence of death and to try to get a temporary remission (Sentence Quotes) Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of my lessons will give you the insight to appreciate fine sentences and the vocabulary to talk about them (Sentence Quotes) A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb (Sentence Quotes) There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive (Sentence Quotes) 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 (Sentence Quotes) 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 (Sentence Quotes) 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 (Sentence Quotes) A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And if there was one thing I was familiar with it was pleasing... There’s no way to finish that sentence without embarrassing myself (Sentence Quotes) The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not (Sentence Quotes) I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I choose and comprehend it. I can write a complete sentence and punctuate it correctly. If I need help, I can call on judges, attorneys, educators, ministers. I wonder what I would be like if I had grown up without such protections and supports. What cracks would have turned up in my character? (Sentence Quotes) I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion (Sentence Quotes) Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldn’t ask for anything better. It’s as near to godliness as I can get (Sentence Quotes) Don’t get discouraged if you’re hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong. You’re allowed to get it wrong, as many times as you need to; you only need to get it right once (Sentence Quotes) No sentence can be effective if it contains facts alone. It must also contain emotion, image, logic, and promise (Sentence Quotes) I think hope is not simply looking around and saying that everything’s great – that’s just ridiculous. For hope to have substance, it has to acknowledge the pain. But hope is saying that’s not the final story. It’s not saying pain doesn’t exist, but it’s saying there’s not a period at the end of that sentence. It’s still being written (Sentence Quotes) I feel it’s important to talk about the complex issues affecting us. And these are complex issues. I think it’s insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence (Sentence Quotes) There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book (Sentence Quotes) I’m flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven’t been a ton of them (Sentence Quotes) The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it’s very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence (Sentence Quotes) I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I’m angry, words burst out of me like a shout, or, if I’m sad, they spill out of me like tears, and if I’m happy my words are like a song. If that happens it’s one of my rules not to change them because they’re coming out of my heart and not my head, and that’s the way they’re meant to be (Sentence Quotes) If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not (Sentence Quotes) Obviously, in journalism, you’re confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it’s in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one (Sentence Quotes) Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don’t know what I want to express until a sentence comes to my head that will sum up everything about how I’m feeling at the time (Sentence Quotes) I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It’s a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function (Sentence Quotes) If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence (Sentence Quotes) Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself (Sentence Quotes) I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method (Sentence Quotes)

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