I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out,… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Justin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
Actually, if you go back to what Marx said in The Communist Manifesto over a hundred years ago, when in talking about… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that the Christian claim is really true, that this is just a warm up to the big event. That this… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion.… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems,… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
“If you set your bar at ‘amazing’ it’s awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn’t going… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you had half an hour of exercise this morning, you're in the right frame of mind to sit still and focus… — John Ratey Copy Share Image
How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Hatumtaki kiongozi anayeishi katika mifuko ya mafisadi, tunamtaka kiongozi anayeishi katika ibara za katiba ya nchi. Kitambi bila Yesu ni jipu.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I don't want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
Our investments continue to be few in number and simple in concept: The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber,… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
