Panic strikes me when I think about a sentence that isn’t given the chance to live because I don’t have a pen in my hand or am not sitting near enough to someone familiar to speak it to. Especially if it’s a particularly good sentence, a sentence with truth or beauty or humor or sadness to it. The best ones always take you by surprise. They sneak into your head while you’re walking down the aisles at a supermarket, or flat-out assault you when you’re at your grandmother’s funeral, and you have to scramble to give the thought life before it’s gone forever. Cocktail napkins, palms, text messages sent to yourself. Adi Alsaid
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If you're going to call a pen a pen, you should be able to write a short story with it. A sentence should not be something that is given a chance to live because a person is not sitting near enough to someone familiar to speak it.

Source: Somewhere Over The Sun

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