Comments on: [writing] Your favorite sentences http://www.jlake.com/2008/06/14/writing-your-favorite-sentences/ Jay Lake's Official Web Site Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:17:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Alan Kellogg http://www.jlake.com/2008/06/14/writing-your-favorite-sentences/#comment-44 Alan Kellogg Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:37:01 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=53#comment-44 <i>A king of elves There was of old Saranwrap by name Who slew the narcs At Mellowmarsh And Soreheads host did tame.</i> Henry Beard and Douglas C. Kenny <b>Bored of the Rings</b> "I just love hairy toes." ibid A king of elves
There was of old
Saranwrap by name
Who slew the narcs
At Mellowmarsh
And Soreheads host did tame.
Henry Beard and Douglas C. Kenny Bored of the Rings

“I just love hairy toes.”
ibid

]]> By: Marko http://www.jlake.com/2008/06/14/writing-your-favorite-sentences/#comment-38 Marko Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:48:06 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=53#comment-38 "Call me Ishmael." Best first sentence in a novel evar. Simplicity, mood and purpose, all tied up in just three words. “Call me Ishmael.”

Best first sentence in a novel evar. Simplicity, mood and purpose, all tied up in just three words.

]]> By: tetar http://www.jlake.com/2008/06/14/writing-your-favorite-sentences/#comment-35 tetar Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:07:03 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=53#comment-35 "Fog." First sentence in Bleak House by Charles Dickens. He goes on for two paragraphs of brilliant evocation but that one word sums it all up: The world, or what we conjure it from. --GS “Fog.”

First sentence in Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

He goes on for two paragraphs of brilliant evocation but that one word sums it all up: The world, or what we conjure it from.

–GS

]]> By: Jaws http://www.jlake.com/2008/06/14/writing-your-favorite-sentences/#comment-34 Jaws Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:51:09 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=53#comment-34 The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man, to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. — George Orwell, <i>Animal Farm: A Fairy Story</i> (the closing line) which is followed by: It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. — George Orwell, <i>1984: A Novel</i> (the opening line) The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man, to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

— George Orwell, Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (the closing line)

which is followed by:

It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

— George Orwell, 1984: A Novel (the opening line)

]]> By: Sarah http://www.jlake.com/2008/06/14/writing-your-favorite-sentences/#comment-30 Sarah Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:09:11 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=53#comment-30 How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying - just one of my favorites. How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying - just one of my favorites.

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