I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm…

“Like the one-sentence paragraph, the second-person point of view can also make us suspect that style is being used as a substitute for content.”

— Francine Prose

Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in…

— Joe Abercrombie

And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you…

— Jeff Daniels

Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong. You're allowed…

— Tana French

“Regina read all this, thinking with each sentence she'd put the book down. But a sentence became a paragraph, which flowed on into a…

— Deborah Johnson

“Each life lived eventually became a book. How a single letter becomes a word, becomes a sentence, becomes a paragraph, before finally becoming a…

— Betta Ferrendelli

I don't begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding…

— John Irving

There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of…

— Alexander Cockburn

I think it's important to be accurate on the level of the word, but it's also important to be accurate at the level of…

— Ann Goldstein

Trying to take a feeling from one language, and express it in another is naturally that's my goal. You can't possibly achieve that in…

— Ann Goldstein

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

— Aidan Chambers

I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into…

— Adam Ross

Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow…

— Winston Churchill

When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences.

— Michael Hyatt

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should…

— William Strunk, Jr