This collection holds 450 sentence quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Lewis Carroll, Barbara Kingsolver and Max Apple.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

The first sentence of a book is a promise.

I work very hard at each story, at every sentence.

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington.

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.

I like to start every sentence with: 'So here's the deal.'

Nothing feels better than constructing a beautiful sentence.

Being in the same sentence as Bob Gibson, that's incredible.

When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it.

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.

People don't think I can construct a sentence, let alone write a script.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

All us got a due date. All us got a death sentence. One day, we gonna die.

I don't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with Charles Chaplin.

There are no seasons anymore. Fashion has become one long run-on sentence.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.

I love what I did in 'Death Sentence,' but that was a low budget action film.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

My burden is my past as a TV star. But, you know, pasts cannot be a life sentence.

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

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

I can speak Tamil fluently, and the sentence structures in Telugu are quite similar.

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

Long sentence or short, everything Trump touches dies - even his most loyal henchman.

Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

I've got problems and if you sentence me to additional time, I'm going to compound them.

Even when I use a word in the wrong order in a sentence, I get mad. It's very stressful.

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