Sentences Quotes

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.

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.

The composing room has an unlimited supply of periods available to terminate short, simple sentences.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: 'How are you?' and 'I want to work with Johnny Depp.'

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.

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.

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.

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.'

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.

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

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.

Sentences are not as such either true or false.

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

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.

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.

For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences.

It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.

The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

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.

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.