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Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But within them, you can say many different sentences and write many different books Picture Quote #1

I’ll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you’re trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book Picture Quote #1

I was the youngest; I had two imperious older brothers - I didn’t get to often complete sentences at the dinner table. So writing was a way of saying what nobody asked me to say Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don’t budge though armies cross them Picture Quote #1

If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me Picture Quote #1

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The important discovery I made very early is that my novels had to be written without any given plan or outline. I can’t do it in any other way. But then they are dependent on the sentences, my intuition, and, as I have experienced many times, the subconscious Picture Quote #1

The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don’t worry about constructing beautiful sentences. Beauty comes from meaning, not language. Accuracy is the most effective style of all Picture Quote #1

I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume. She always reminded me a little bit of my mother, so I feel a great affinity. I love the precision of Didion’s writing. There’s a construction and a craftsmanship to her sentences that’s imbued with so much emotion Picture Quote #1

I’m so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don’t feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it Picture Quote #1

In many a piece of music, it’s the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe Picture Quote #1

The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation Picture Quote #1

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To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short Picture Quote #1

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down Picture Quote #1

I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn’t consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings Picture Quote #1

The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal but at the same time be a little overfull - to encourage them to do a kind of poetic work Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Actors don’t need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don’t draw on their own life, but all actors do Picture Quote #1

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What’s so hard about that first sentence is that you’re stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you’ve laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone Picture Quote #1

You will have the grace of writing, when you boldly begin to write your first sentences Picture Quote #1

When I was writing the first few books, what I would do is write a bunch of sentences and then go back and expand and explode those sentences, pack as much into them as I could, so they’d kind of be like popcorn kernels popping... all this stuff in there to make the writing dense, and beautiful for its density Picture Quote #1

After all those neurochemicals are drained out, it takes a while for them to replenish so on the back end of flow state...I can barely string sentences together. I become stupid Picture Quote #1

Four. That’s what I want you to remember. If you don’t get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won’t do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four Picture Quote #1

What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt. I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe Picture Quote #1

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A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that’s great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them Picture Quote #1

You could teach [George] Carlin in college. It’s the construction of the word and the order of things and how they go. How all those sentences are timed perfectly Picture Quote #1

My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it’s because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head Picture Quote #1

Guys, there’s only one thing I hate more than bloggers who start sentences with ‘guys’ - and it’s those mealy-mouth hipsters who crochet codpieces and their ye-olde-sideburned friends who pickle stuff and slaughter their own gluten-free goats Picture Quote #1

When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don’t like to be deflected by acrobatics Picture Quote #1

And they lived happily ever after is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It’s tragic because it’s falsehood. It is a myth that has led generations to expect something from marriage that is not possible Picture Quote #1

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Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But within them, you can say many different sentences and write many different books. (Sentences Quotes) I’ll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you’re trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book. (Sentences Quotes) I was the youngest; I had two imperious older brothers - I didn’t get to often complete sentences at the dinner table. So writing was a way of saying what nobody asked me to say. (Sentences Quotes) 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. (Sentences Quotes) I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don’t budge though armies cross them. (Sentences Quotes) If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me. (Sentences Quotes) The important discovery I made very early is that my novels had to be written without any given plan or outline. I can’t do it in any other way. But then they are dependent on the sentences, my intuition, and, as I have experienced many times, the subconscious. (Sentences Quotes) The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Don’t worry about constructing beautiful sentences. Beauty comes from meaning, not language. Accuracy is the most effective style of all. (Sentences Quotes) I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume. She always reminded me a little bit of my mother, so I feel a great affinity. I love the precision of Didion’s writing. There’s a construction and a craftsmanship to her sentences that’s imbued with so much emotion. (Sentences Quotes) I’m so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don’t feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it. (Sentences Quotes) In many a piece of music, it’s the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe. (Sentences Quotes) The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation. (Sentences Quotes) To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short. (Sentences Quotes) I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down. (Sentences Quotes) I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn’t consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings. (Sentences Quotes) The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal but at the same time be a little overfull - to encourage them to do a kind of poetic work. (Sentences Quotes) 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. (Sentences Quotes) Actors don’t need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don’t draw on their own life, but all actors do. (Sentences Quotes) What’s so hard about that first sentence is that you’re stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you’ve laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone. (Sentences Quotes) You will have the grace of writing, when you boldly begin to write your first sentences (Sentences Quotes) When I was writing the first few books, what I would do is write a bunch of sentences and then go back and expand and explode those sentences, pack as much into them as I could, so they’d kind of be like popcorn kernels popping... all this stuff in there to make the writing dense, and beautiful for its density. (Sentences Quotes) After all those neurochemicals are drained out, it takes a while for them to replenish so on the back end of flow state...I can barely string sentences together. I become stupid. (Sentences Quotes) Four. That’s what I want you to remember. If you don’t get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won’t do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four. (Sentences Quotes) What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt. I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe. (Sentences Quotes) A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that’s great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them. (Sentences Quotes) You could teach [George] Carlin in college. It’s the construction of the word and the order of things and how they go. How all those sentences are timed perfectly. (Sentences Quotes) My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it’s because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head. (Sentences Quotes) Guys, there’s only one thing I hate more than bloggers who start sentences with ‘guys’ - and it’s those mealy-mouth hipsters who crochet codpieces and their ye-olde-sideburned friends who pickle stuff and slaughter their own gluten-free goats. (Sentences Quotes) When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don’t like to be deflected by acrobatics. (Sentences Quotes) And they lived happily ever after is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It’s tragic because it’s falsehood. It is a myth that has led generations to expect something from marriage that is not possible. (Sentences Quotes)

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