As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want… — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
Kid, not everything in life can be summed up neatly in a paragraph. No book has all of the answers. Not even… — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph. — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Certainly on a political and a legislative level, Bill Clinton was effective, but the example that he ultimately left, I think for… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence of Osama bin Laden fault and then… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don't keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Often they [writers on the study of management] have a point of view based upon intuition and experience. They then offer a… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I've often said, not totally jokingly, that screenwriting doesn't really qualify as real writing at all. You don't string sentences into paragraphs.… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
To me, writing is a very physical process. I lay out the entire book with the two narratives side by side on… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Improve writing skills: 1. Keep paragraphs short. 2. Use bold and CAPS to make points. 3. Start with a question or short… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that.… — Charles Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
My movies were not reaping the kind of emotional rewards that I wanted. I wanted them to be appreciated and they weren't.… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image