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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Where to begin? I have asked myself this question dozens of times, gazing at a blank page. As if I needed to find the one, the only sentence that would give me entry into the writing of the book and ...