Fish is something of a sentence connoisseur, and he says writing a fine sentence is a delicate ... a well-crafted sentence. "If you can begin to understand an accomplishment in detail, and be ...

When I began writing for a living ... us or them. The long sentence is how we begin to free ourselves from the machine-like world of bullet points and the inhumanity of ballot-box yeas or nays.

We've all heard the advice writing teachers give ... I think that's why my books tend to begin as first sentences -- I'll write that opening sentence first, and when I get it right I'll start ...