Sentence Quotes

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question in mind: to what extent does it feed into existing stereotypes and established prejudice?

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

I’m a strong alpha male but sensitive.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.