I’ve added a new page in Bookfox, one that I hope will give you a great deal of pleasure:
The Most Beautiful Sentences in Literature
Currently I have 100 authors on the list, but I might get sick of a few of them and boot them off in favor of new talent.
I made this list because I disliked the lists out there of Sentences. The Buzzfeed 51 Beautiful Sentences weren’t very … beautiful, or original, or lovely, or even modern. I found very little that I liked, and I had read virtually all of them before.
The Esquire list of 70 Best Sentences are mostly jokes. If you think an eight-word sentence by David Sedaris which includes two curse words is the height of great sentences, go ahead and consult that list, but I think my list is a heavyweight and they’re just skittering around at flyweight level with some gags and jokes.
So I think my collection of sentences fulfills a need. From the response so far, (massive amounts of traffic from people sharing on Facebook!) I think it does. Writers are sick of lists of terrible sentences.
I hope the 100 sentences I’ve collected are not the usual suspects, and that they delight and surprise you with their beauty.
I’m also working on a second collection of good sentences, which will be updated regularly.
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Hi, I’m just wondering if there is a hard copy of these quotes or ‘a collection of well written sentences in literature’ that I could purchase as I’m really keen to buy something like this as a Christmas present.
I don’t have something like that, but that’s a fantastic idea! You’re talking about a poster with all these sentences on it, right?