If you’re a fan of Jane Austen (and honestly, isn’t most every book lover?) then you already know the 19 th century novelist wrote more than beautiful love stories (albeit filled with irony, humor, ...

Have you ever stopped mid-page and felt a line sink deep into your chest? Maybe it knocked the breath from your lungs or made time pause for just a second. That’s the strange power certain sentences ...

Bruiting about the Internet lately is a list of what are claimed to be the 51 most beautiful sentences from English literature. You can see it at www.buzzfeed.com ...

"We're sometimes struck by a beautiful sentence or maybe a lousy sentence, and we'll just say, 'Hey, listen to this,' " she says. Her choice was the last line of Toni Morrison's novel Sula: "It was a ...

People will advise you to write all sorts of sentences. Snappy sentences, lyrical sentences, Hemingway-esque short sentences, long Faulknerian sentences. But there’s really only one kind of sentence ...