From a Washington Post column by Benjamin Dreyer headlined “Writers, be wary of Throat-Clearers and Wan Intensifiers. Very, very wary.”:

From a story on lithub.com headlined “Sven Birkerts on Discovering the Story You Need to Write”:

Just over a year ago, my wife and I moved from the house we had lived in for over thirty years, the house our children grew up in, the house we both associate with our beginnings. The change of starting up in a new house in a new town was enormous, not only in all the obvious ways, but in its psychological impact. I knew almost right away that I would try to write about it.

From a story on 3quarksdaily.com by Nicola Sayers headlined “On The Celebrity Sentence”:

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. 

I don’t know where I first came across this sentence. I was in my early twenties, so it can’t have been on Instagram, although I’ve since seen it there so many times that this is now how it appears in my mind’s eye: boxy black print, hovering in mid-square….