During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
As Flannery O'Connor says, a person can choose what she writes but she can't choose what she makes live. Some people are… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The rhythmical unit of the syllable is at the back of all of it - the word, the phrase, the sentence, the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
there are people who are born superficial ... They prefer not to have to deal with more than a limited number of… — Gwethalyn Graham Copy Share Image
I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually… — William Styron Copy Share Image
When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I can be just as effective with a quick retort or a one-liner than with a big paragraph. — Alan Colmes Copy Share Image
“Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers where you just repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation' and… — John Green Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge in the research process is to let go, to stop, to say enough, and then to reduce all of… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the… — Robert Rankin Copy Share Image
Hot women have to stop putting long paragraphs of text on their bodies. I know you think it's sexy but one thing… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write… — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can't have what you've got coming… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
