“People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.” PeopleWritingHas BeensOrderSpeakEffectsProduceDegreesSentences Author:Stanley Fish
“In the performance of an illocutionary act in the literal utterance of a sentence, the speaker intends to produce a certain effect by means of getting the hearer to recognize his intention to produce that effect; and furthermore, if he is using the words literally, he intends this recognition to be achieved in virtue of the fact that the rules for using the expressions he utters associate the expression with the production of that effect.” IfsMeanFactsCertainVirtueEffectsProduceExpressionPerformancesIntentionProductionsSentencesRecognitionSpeakersAssociatesLiteralUtterance Author:John Searle
“Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where you have to get some skill before you can even produce a sound. It's misleading because it's hard to make stories. It seems like it should be easy to do but it's not. The more you write, the better you're going to get. Write and write and write. Try not to be hard on yourself.” KnowsShouldWritingTryingHardStoriesSeemsEasySoundKnow HowProduceSkillsSentencesMisleadTrumpetsWeird Things Author:Gail Carson Levine
“The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them. A young writer must cross many psychological barriers to acquire confidence in his capacity to produce good work-especially his first full-length book-and he cannot do this by staring at a piece of blank paper, searching for the perfect sentence.” IfsWritingFirstsBookLastsYoungPerfectPiecesProducePaperCapacityCrossesSentencesPsychologicalStaringAcquireBarriersLengthBlankGood WorkResortsDissatisfiedYoung WritersBlank Paper Author:Paul Johnson
“I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.” ThinkingKnowsWayWritingPlayHelpingFeelingsLanguageSoundNovelEffectsProduceEarsSentencesSensualOddsUnfortunateGorgeousConsonantsSound Effects Author:Tony Kushner