If you're talking about output, maybe consider using a heredoc. That's described in "perldoc: Quote-Like Operators". Here's an example:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

print <<'EOT';
How do I align this statement so that it
does not look like a run on sentence
and take up the whole screen?
EOT
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Output:

How do I align this statement so that it
does not look like a run on sentence
and take up the whole screen?
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You may also find formatted printing, with printf, useful. See the sprintf documentation for the formatting codes (and a huge number of examples).