Sentence Form

Famous quotes containing the words sentence and/or form:

    A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plow instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men’s existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
    Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)