Some stains can be removed only by the destruction of the material itself.

These sentences were semantically surreal but syntactically flawless. Racter could sort its stack of words into a dry parody of scholarly method. This dissertation will show that the love of a man and a woman is not the love of steak and lettuce. Or it could work up a tone that nestled somewhere between flirtation and insult. I was thinking as you

Amid these gaps, implications sit.

To clothe despair in eloquence is to show that it can be endured.

Stick to time, manner and place and your sentence will never seem cluttered. For you will be relaying an unbroken action in the world of linear time and three-dimensional space within which all of us are stuck. In the early hours I took off my shoes and crept into the spare room. That night I slept fitfully on an inflatable bed. The next day I rose

The Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal wrote a whole novel (Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age) containing just one sentence.

Letter-carvers had once been seen as artists, like painters and sculptors, but now they were looked on as mere artisans, like printers. Writers, meanwhile, had come to be seen as intellectuals or creative people, working with the mind, not as scribes, working with the hands.

words are the world’s gift to us all, as free as light and air.

I write maybe three and a half thousand sentences a year.