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

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

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.
Franka Potente

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.
Don DeLillo

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.
Roger Angell

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

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
Anatole Broyard

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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.
Kevin J. Anderson

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
Jack Henry Abbott

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

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes

Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
Denis Diderot

Sentences are not as such either true or false.
J. L. Austin

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.
Christopher Darden

Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction.
Tom Jenkinson

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
Friedrich Nietzsche