You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

He had tattooed all of the names of the men he had killed on his body...unfortunately he had run out of room.

"I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding."

Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian.

We have an hour before we have to leave," Cray said. "So I thought I might tell you a little about myself. I thought it might pass the time." "I'm not really all that interested," Alex said.

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.