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“If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.”

Ifs Knows Needs Writing Firsts Order Waiting Hours Known Fate Written Pages Sentences Invisible Chapters Invisible Things

Author:Lynda Barry

“All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.”

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.”

Firsts Today Sentences Newspapers Magazines Restaurants Expensive

Author:Masa Takayama

“I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.”

Writing Firsts Wanted Beautiful Fiction College Sentences Writing Fiction

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence of the copy.”

Firsts One Thing Elements Sentences Copies Advertisements

Book:The Adweek Copywriting Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Powerful Advertising and Marketing Copy from One of America's Top Copywriters

Source: The Adweek Copywriting Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Powerful Advertising and Marketing Copy from One of America's Top Copywriters