#sentence

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

— Peter Straub

#henry #henry james #i #i write #james

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. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

#drawing #lines #machine #paragraph #parts

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

#each #focused #itself #scene #sentences

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#denial #found #happened #i #myself

You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary. ↗

— Florence E. Allen

#fair #fair trial #had #high #high office

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us. ↗

— Steve Almond

#freaks #america

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked. ↗

— Greg Nagan

#first-sentence #first-words #humor #opening-lines #parody

What else exhausts like sustained deception? ↗

— Leif Enger

#deception

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love

I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die. ↗

— Nick Cave

#opening-lines #opening-sentences #death