I THINK we've probably all read a word that we've NEVER heard pronounced out LOUD, and we TRY it out in a SENTENCE and fall on our face.

Turgenev's ACHIEVEMENT lies in how he succeeded, in spite of himself, his country, and his TIME, in exempting his WORK from public DUTY. This has given it that unnameable quality that makes every sentence true, every silence TRUSTWORTHY.

After 'Gangs,' people THOUGHT that I couldn't speak a SENTENCE in ENGLISH or that I don't WEAR JEANS or, you know, I am a city girl.

Detachment produces a PECULIAR state of mind. Maybe that's the worst SENTENCE of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being OUGHT to be entitled to FEEL.

I KEEP GOING over a SENTENCE. I nag it, gnaw it, PAT and flatter it.

I STILL UNDERSTAND a few words in life, but I no LONGER think they MAKE a sentence.

I've ALWAYS wanted to be mentioned in the same sentence or at the same time that you say Quincy Jones or you say Stevie WONDER. I never thought that could POSSIBLY EVER happen.

I think about the SENTENCE a long TIME, and then I write it. I don't REVISE it once it's SET down.

The arrangement of the WORDS matters, and the arrangement you WANT can be found in the PICTURE in your MIND. The picture DICTATES the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence, long or short, active or passive.

I'd GIVEN up Catholicism in my teens but something of it stays with me. I try to CREATE the PERFECT sentence - that's as CLOSE to godliness as I can GET.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people IMMEDIATELY ATTEMPT to summarize that PERSON's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get CAUGHT up looking at the leader's STYLE, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.