I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

- Anne Enright

I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.

- Anne Enright

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

- Don DeLillo

Sometimes if you tell me what a story is about in just a few sentences, I can tell you if it's going to be a success.

- David L. Wolper

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

- Ella Maillart

The words of the world want to make sentences.

- Gaston Bachelard

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

- Joan Didion

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

- John Green

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.

- Joey Santiago

Sentences are not as such either true or false.

- J. L. Austin

I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'

- Nathan Fielder

Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

- Per Petterson

I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

- Rachel Kushner

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

- Tom Robbins

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

- Theodore Sturgeon

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

- Wolcott Gibbs