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In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Speak
Matter
Soil
Job
Live
Painting
Plenty
Characters
About
Only
Like
Enabling
Shift
Suspense
Fiction
Information
Them
Breathe
Conveying
Sentences
Certain
Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.
Joan Didion
Me
Simple
Reading
Those
Something
Rather
Magnetic
Him
Because
Arrangement
Were
Just
Just Something
Sentences
Really
Twelve
Appeared
Hemingway
Eleven
Early
Started
Started Reading
If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense.
Joanna Scott
Words
Language
Sense
Correct
Rules
Rigidity
Followed
Seem
Temptation
Obliged
Through
Prose
Make
Polished
Nonsense
Dull
Stir
Very
Begin
Trying
Gets
Impulse
After
While
Convey
Meaning
Sentences
Rebel
Keep
Harder
Resist
In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.
Joe Scarborough
Myself
Me
Trouble
Defense
President
State
Secretaries
Completing
Around
Rock
Rock Star
Up
Get
Grew
Vice
Vice President
Room
Sentences
Washington
Star
Found
It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.
Joey Santiago
Nice
Mark
Exclamation
Always
Comma
End
Sentences
Your
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.
John Burnside
Life
Love
People
Writing
Heroes
Long
Feelings
Big
Statements
Consist
Recognise
Rather
Qualifications
Proust
Fiction
James
Fiction Writing
Sentences
Who
Henry
Henry James
You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.
John Green
Best
Great
You
Great Gatsby
Like
Got
Sentences
Ever
I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.
John Irving
Words
Ending
Atmosphere
Only
Know
Until
Hear
Begin
Screenplay
Happens
Mean
Convey
Sentences
Novel
Actual
If you're still wondering about details - how am I going to get these two to meet, or whatever - when you're writing, you can't pay proper attention to the sentences themselves.
John Irving
You
Writing
Whatever
Pay
Meet
Details
About
Proper
Attention
How
Am
Still
Get
Wondering
Going
Sentences
Themselves
Two
There are some sentences you cannot see yourself ever writing. 'I heartily endorse the Conservative Party' would be one. 'I look forward to Justin Bieber's new record' would be another.
John Niven
You
Yourself
Writing
Conservative
Party
Conservative Party
Would
Would-Be
See
Record
Some
New
Look
Another
Heartily
Endorse
Cannot
Justin
Sentences
Forward
Ever
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.
John Wesley Powell
Organization
Language
Consists
Parts
Integration
Linguistic
Sentence
Sentences
Then
Organs
Differentiation
Speech
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.
Jonathan Miller
Made
Translation
Out
Characters
Makes
Does
Survive
Substance
Literature
Interesting
Sentences
Novel
I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.'
Josefina Vazquez Mota
Life
Politician
Politicians
Criminals
Penalty
Proposal
Longer
Make
Another
Because
Makes
Said
Deals
Repeat
Maximum
Just
Sentences
Creating
Organized
Who
Deserve
Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences.
Joshua Foer
Work
You
Sometimes
Looking
Back
Way
Out
Brooklyn
About
Something
Take
Pushy
Over
New
Island
Makes
Train
New Yorkers
Sentences
Produce
Really
Shoulder
Your
Laptop
Lived
'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
Kamala Harris
Smart
Crime
Crimes
Punishments
Does
Reducing
Getting
Mean
Sentences
Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
Karen Bender
Love
You
Writing
World
Fall
Enjoy
Them
Sentences
Creating
Your
These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us.
Karen Thompson Walker
Best
Good
Think
Plot
Jobs
Only
Voice
Days
Like
Look
Sound
Surprise
Meaning
Sentences
Us
Workers
Tone
Images
Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
Karen Thompson Walker
Me
Running
Solutions
Occur
While
Subway
Sentences
Shower
Riding
Treadmill
I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
Kate Atkinson
Work
God
Me
You
Honestly
Other
Bit
Out
Characters
Magic
More
Spoil
Odd
Very
Curious
Get
Want
Formed
Sentences
Work Out
Produce
Aspects
Fully
Suddenly
Creatures
Ever
Nearest
Thing
Imagery
Playing
I'm constantly struggling in interviews to engage and finish sentences, because I am being asked personal questions from somebody I don't know.
Katherine Waterston
Somebody
Interviews
Constantly
Finish
Struggling
Know
Because
Am
Questions
Personal
Being
Sentences
Asked
Engage
The games I'm playing have much more to do with using the language of power and the vocabulary of power to construct new sentences. It's about pointing to empire and control and domination and misogyny and all those social ills in the work, but it's not necessarily taking a position. Oftentimes, it's actually embodying it.
Kehinde Wiley
Work
Language
Power
Control
Those
About
Vocabulary
More
Construct
Pointing
Taking
Empire
New
Domination
Oftentimes
Social
Sentences
Much
Games
Using
Ills
Actually
Necessarily
Playing
Position
I have prosecuted very serious criminals who are now serving very long jail sentences.
Keir Starmer
Long
Criminals
Prosecuted
Very
Jail
Sentences
Who
Serious
Now
Serving
What to do about these increases in crime? Plenty of laws already exist to punish violent criminals, and research questions the level of correlation between longer sentences and lower crime rates.
Ken Cuccinelli
Crime
Research
Increases
Criminals
Punish
Plenty
Correlation
About
Rates
Laws
Between
Longer
Exist
Questions
Sentences
Lower
Level
Violent
When you wake up, instead of checking emails on your phone, or counting your retweets, pick up a pen and scratch a few sentences into a notebook.
Kevin Barry
You
Phone
Wake Up
Few
Emails
Pen
Pick
Instead
Counting
Checking
Wake
Up
Scratch
Notebook
Sentences
Your
I think, in reading a few sentences of text, you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers but in lyricists as well.
Lauren Mayberry
Love
You
Reading
Few
Think
Tell
Something
Writers
Prose
Well
Text
Just
Sentences
Tone
I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don't want to go on.
Lawrence Block
Writing
Few
Out
Tried
Fine
Uncomfortable
Write
Come
Go
Want
Anymore
Sentences
Much
Really
Pages
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