#sentences

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction. ↗

— Scott Turow

#fiction #lessons #life #need #reduced

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. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#exactly #found #how #i #just

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins. ↗

— Jules Renard

#coins #currency #making #making up #many

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#paid #paying #seen #sentences #simply

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

— Shepard Smith

#anyway #communicate #full #need #sentences

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#burn #damaging #go #head #injustice

Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel. ↗

— Bohumil Hrabal

#blood-vessels #dissolve #infusion #reading #sentences

I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful. ↗

— Rae Hachton

#death-and-dying #first-lines #gothic-fantasy #gothic-romance #love

Seated each afternoon in the darkened screening room, Halliday came to recognise the targeted numerals of the Academy leader as sigils preceding the dream state of a film. ↗

— William Gibson

#first-sentences #gibson #dreams

If you're going to read this, don't bother. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#opening-lines #first-sentence