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I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence. Jayne Anne Phillips

Writer Proceeds Sentence Who

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence. Jean Rostand

Life Words Few Think Longer Make Understand Still Sentence

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

Books Always Begin Sentence Connected Image Necessarily

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. Jeff Greenfield

People Some People Some Longer Than Committed Sentence Who Served

I've always wanted to be mentioned in the same sentence or at the same time that you say Quincy Jones or you say Stevie Wonder. I never thought that could possibly ever happen. Jermaine Dupri

Time You Thought Say Possibly Mentioned Could Never Stevie Stevie Wonder Always Wonder Same Same Time Wanted Happen Sentence Ever

I tend to like the last sentence I just wrote, which is: 'It was late in the fall and the trees lining our driveway had turned red like a row of burning matches.' Jess Walter

Fall Trees Late Our Tend Had Driveway Red Like Wrote Matches Lining Just Burning Which Sentence Turned Row Last

Even when I use a word in the wrong order in a sentence, I get mad. It's very stressful. Jet Li

Word Mad Wrong Very Get Order Sentence Use Even Stressful

You can be predisposed genetically, but it's not a sentence. I'm genetically predisposed, but I manage my weight. The root of obesity, though, is usually emotional. The poor habits are a symptom of a deeper emotional issue. Jillian Michaels

You Symptom Though Obesity Habits Emotional Weight Genetically Issue Manage Poor Sentence Root Deeper

Someone pointed out that Dick Enberg and Curt Gowdy are the only two ever to call a Super Bowl and a Final Four. So I'll be the third. I get a kick out of putting my name in the same sentence as those other two giants. Jim Nantz

Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence? Jimmy Breslin

You Starts Boring Lead Read How Newspaper Sentence Newspapers

Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that? Joe Abercrombie

Book Sometimes Think Way Paragraph Someone Wired Head Come Read How Up Just Sentence Really Such A Way Enjoying

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence. John Banville

Invention Say Would Greatest Human Human Beings Sentence Asked Beings

Republicans aren't interested in a one-sentence fix unless that sentence is, 'Obamacare is repealed.' John Barrasso

Unless Obamacare Fix Interested Republicans Sentence

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader's style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented. John C. Maxwell

The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it's a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those points don't count. You can win the Nobel Literature Prize, but that doesn't make the next sentence of the next book appear. John Edgar Wideman

Time Day You Game Book Writing Win Sense Those Out Points Count Share Nobel Primary New Piece Make New Day Go Score Begin Prize Literature Sentence Next Appear Each Each Time Play Thing Basketball

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know. John Taylor Gatto

Win School Bad Bad Habits Only Habits Know Learned Doing Truly Jail Curriculum Where Sentence Should Teach Awards

There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence. Jon Scieszka

Time Thought Books Typing Would Trio More Take Praise Up Six Just While Sentence Page Warp Fully Twelve Each

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader. Jonathan Raban

Dreams Time Political Father Mind Obama About More Leaders Feels Like Perhaps Until Dead Known Reader Audience Reveals Real Private His Political Leaders Than Real Time After Sentence Working Shows

Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence. Joshua Foer

My grandfather used to write one sentence every day in his journal: 'I love Anne more than ever today.' I think that was his meditation - keeping him in his marriage, and also his appreciation for it. It was very touching. Justin Theroux

Love Today Day Appreciation Marriage Every Day Every Think Meditation Touching More Write Journal Anne Also Him His Very Than Sentence Grandfather Used Ever Keeping

My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing. Karl Ove Knausgard

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