#sentences

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

#brain #line #make #music #rhythm

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever. ↗

— John Green

#ever #got #great #like #sentences

Vigorous writing is concise. 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.

#contain #drawing #lines #machine #paragraph

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. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#because #book #create #different #effects

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

— Jeremy Larner

#idea #longer #people #sentences #some

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

#country #country boy #couple #define #elvis

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

#because #creating #criminals #deals #deserve

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

#atmosphere #begin #convey #ending #happens

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#character #easily #form #individual #nature

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#frankly #other #people #sentences #start