John Irving

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.

American Novelist

Jhumpa Lahiri

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

American Author

Garth Risk Hallberg

The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.

Robert Kennedy

I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best.

American Politician

John Banville

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you.

Irish Novelist

Jenny Shipley

I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.

New Zealander Statesman

Jean Rostand

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

French Scientist

Karen Bender

Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.

Dana Spiotta

I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

Gaston Bachelard

The words of the world want to make sentences.

French Philosopher

Make sure your sentence has a subject and a verb to express a complete idea.

Complete Thought

A sentence should always start with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark.

Punctuation Marks

In legal context, 'sentence' refers to legal consequences, not grammar structures.

Legal Consequence

The seriousness of a crime influences the length and type of a sentence.

Severity

When 'sentence' is used as a verb, it typically involves a judge's formal decision.

Judge's Role

Only a legal authority can sentence someone in the context of law.

Legal Authority

Sentences are used in educational materials to practice language skills.

Language Practice

Sentences in exercises can include cultural information, enhancing language learning.

Cultural Understanding

 By selling them, kings enriched their own realms, and strengthened them against neighboring enemies. African kingdoms prospered from the slave trade, but meeting the European's massive demand created intense competition. Slavery replaced other criminal sentences, and capturing slaves became a motivation for war,

The Atlantic slave...

 cause introverts to flee to a shack in the woods it empowers them to embrace the world but to do it for the first time on their own terms now ironically these stories had the same effect on me I found myself every morning with my laptop thinking about all these souls and writing not the first sentences of

Blueprint for a quiet...

 like how someone like me could spend two weeks unable to start the opening sentence of a paper, and then miraculously find the unbelievable work ethic to stay up all night and write eight pages. And this entire situation, with the three characters -- this is the procrastinator's system.

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 Most of the time, if you see an apostrophe hovering helpfully near a word, it's trying to mark possession or contraction. First, let's look at how the apostrophe marks possession. As you can see, the placement of this punctuation mark can really change the meaning of a sentence.

When to use apostrophes...

 that add information about other parts of a sentence, which is usually helpful. But when modifiers aren't linked clearly enough to the words they're actually referring to, they can create unintentional ambiguity. That happens because the modifying words,

How misused modifiers...

 20-year sentence but in prison crimes against children are the most despised even though I didn't do those things that they said I did you know it's still a crime involving a child and then you got a lot of people around here who just

Prison Victim PIPE National...

 of what it's like to be a philosopher trying to educate the public. Most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance but hostile to anyone who points it out. In fact, the real life Socrates was sentenced to death

Plato’s Allegory of the...

 though it helps to add in a few implied phrases and punctuation marks to reveal what's really going on. Buffalo buffalo are bison from the city of Buffalo, and this sentence has three groups of them.

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 taste, smell, touch, hearing, sight, and the sense of motion. It also plays with our ability to abstract and make complex associations. Look at the following sentence. "The world was ghost-quiet,

How to write descriptivel...

 To be left without a shell is a death sentence. A naked crab will quickly cook under the intense tropical sun.