84 Quotes About Sentences

In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant.

If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.

Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.

Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?

When I finish a sentence, after much labor, it's finished. A certain point comes at which you can't do any more work on it because you know it will kill the sentence.

Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.

Cancer is a word, not a sentence.

No one wants to go out mid-sentence.