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America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
Bruce Jackson
Long
Prison
Heterosexuality
Only
Longest
West
Condition
Cure
America
Sentences
I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.
Carol Burnett
Love
Myself
You
Writing
Typing
Out
Seeing
Computer
Idea
Like
Know
Around
Printing
Moving
Sentences
Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served.
Christopher Darden
People
Some People
Pay
Pay Attention
Type
Some
Something
Attention
Make
Conditions
Going
Happen
Which
Sentences
Us
Served
Serving
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
Beautiful
Difficult
Absolutely
Head
Between
Always
Accurate
Being
Sentence
Sentences
Then
Choice
Pop
Choose
I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
Dana Spiotta
World
Challenge
Only
Like
Sentences
Creating
I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.
Daniel Alarcon
Discipline
Sit
Down
Think
About
Structure
More
Write
Does
How
Impose
Intellectual
Linguistic
Sentences
Really
Certain
Hard
Mapping
I don't type my sentences on an arena's pitch, surrounded by thousands of cheering or booing fans - I don't feel pressure to please a crowd.
David Benioff
Fans
Pressure
Booing
Type
Please
Thousands
Crowd
Arena
Feel
Cheering
Surrounded
Pitch
Sentences
I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.
Don DeLillo
Work
Myself
Word
Seen
Recognize
Through
Always
Begin
Sentence
Sentences
Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo, Stark strips his sentences down to the necessary information.
Donald E. Westlake
Down
Bit
Strips
Indirect
His
Information
Sentences
Stark
Necessary
Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.
E. L. Doctorow
Music
Words
Somewhere
Along
Make
Sounds
Line
Brain
Rhythm
Rhythms
Sentences
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
Writing
Face
Everything
Way
Out
Window
Only
Through
Outside
Like
Look
Off
Wall
Sentences
Seal
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.
Edoardo Ponti
Life
First
Few
Own
Say
Draw
Beyond
Talk
Lot
May
Sentences
Actor
Need
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
Ella Maillart
Our
Rigid
Mould
Refuse
Sentences
Acts
My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context.
Ellen Klages
Character
Battle
Single
Down
Starts
Fragments
Paper
Bits
Run
Something
Names
Ideas
Messy
Context
Dialogue
Lines
False
Get
Doodle
Anything
Process
Sentences
Full
Suddenly
Now
Need
After I finish writing a chapter, I'll print it out, cut it up into paragraphs, and cut away any transition sentences. Then I shuffle all the paragraphs and lay them out as they come. As I arrange and hold them next to each other, very quickly a natural structure for the chapter presents itself.
Erik Larson
Natural
Chapter
Writing
Other
Out
Paragraphs
Finish
Structure
Lay
Come
Print
Arrange
Up
Itself
Very
Quickly
Any
Hold
After
Them
Transition
Sentences
Cut
Then
Next
Each
Away
Shuffle
Presents
Whatever simplicity I've achieved in writing, I think I owe most of it to Jean Renoir and Hemingway: simple, declarative sentences. I've read some very good writers, but the sentences were so long that I've forgotten what the point was.
Gene Wilder
Good
Writing
Simple
Simplicity
Long
Whatever
Think
Some
Point
Writers
Most
Read
Were
Very
Owe
Achieved
Forgotten
Sentences
Jean
Hemingway
My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
Geraldine Brooks
Kind
Paragraph
Rather
More
Tend
Very
Short
Gal
Spare
Sentences
Your
The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability.
Helen Fisher
Women
Natural
Words
Speak
Internet
Girl
Lose
Tool
Complex
Ability
Superiority
More
Never
Verbal
Boy
Than
Grammatical
Which
Little
Sentences
Little Girls
Use
Lets
When we talk about good books, we often talk about good sentences, but what we rarely talk about is reader pleasure. Yet it is reader pleasure that is going to make a book break out into the kind of success that makes it into a household name.
Holly Black
Success
Good
Book
Books
Pleasure
Out
Kind
Rarely
About
Name
Talk
Household
Make
Household Name
Reader
Makes
Going
Often
Break
Sentences
You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a long time. I weigh the words and the sentences. I weigh the paragraphs. The process is much more meditative for me.
Jamaica Kincaid
Time
Day
Me
You
Every Day
People
Words
Some People
Long
Long Time
Every
Carry
Paragraphs
Some
Something
More
Point
Write
Weigh
Like
Know
Around
How
Process
Sentences
Much
Certain
Certain Point
A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.
James Patterson
Love
You
People
Writing
Wonderful
Style
Fall
Paragraphs
Prose
Terrific
Lot
Times
Get
Stories
Sentences
Really
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
Jean Rostand
Feeling
Nothing
Ability
Give
Remains
Said
Sentences
Certain
Brief
Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.
Jerry Leiber
You
Country
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Define
Respectful
He
Country Boy
Couple
Him
Boy
Very
Sentences
Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force the writer to spend a good deal of time working on macrostructure rather than prettifying individual sentences.
Jesse Kellerman
Time
Good
Events
Crime
Beginning
Spend
Out
Logically
Rather
Individual
Mystery
Writer
Investigation
Clear
Force
Reader
Deal
End
Than
Efficiently
Expectations
Expects
Middle
Sentences
Working
Good Deal
Novels
Play
Resolution
I ought to be more hardboiled; I'd like to be. I don't think I have it in me. To write in clipped sentences. To employ gritty metaphor in the introduction of sultry blondes... I can't do it, so why bother trying?
Jesse Kellerman
Me
Gritty
Think
Ought
Introduction
More
Bother
Write
Like
Employ
Metaphor
Blondes
Trying
Sentences
Why
Why Bother
When you're on a submarine you're usually underwater for months at a time, and you don't get to Skype or make phone calls. When you get messages, they're maybe two sentences. They're very short.
Jessy Schram
Time
You
Phone
Months
Phone Calls
Messages
Make
Calls
Underwater
Submarine
Very
Get
Maybe
Short
Sentences
Skype
Two
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