I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

They recognize that you don't have to do it all. You just have to begin the work.

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.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.