First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
What if the virtue, the value, of the sentence is the sentence itself and not its extractable meaning? What if you wrote as though sentences can’t be summarized? What if you value every one of a sentence’s attributes and not merely its meaning?
Verlyn Klinkenborg • Several Short Sentences About Writing
But there is one thing all Readers want: clear, concise, comprehensible sentences that mean something to them.
June Casagrande • It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences
One thing that is immediately clear about all three of these classic writers is that their first sentences create voice. Note everything about them—the length, the punctuation, the relative simplicity. Someone is talking to us, and that someone sounds authentic, in command of some sort of authority. There is no wavering, or cautiousness, or lack of
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