A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph. — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I'll get a three-page letter and the last paragraph says 'I know you'll never read this, but here's my number.' I love… — Dave Heineman Copy Share Image
The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity,… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
Each character requires different language, and these issues become inseparable. You have all these balls in the air: language, character, narrative. For… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and… — Gina Berriault Copy Share Image
Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
If I write a paragraph and I don't get a certain lift from it, if I don't feel connected to it emotionally,… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence and then never produced it. Then Tony… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
