There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
Richard Price got a million dollar advance on one fake film book based on a paragraph outline and is able to seduce… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
When people want to sound smart, they add syllables to words, words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to books. They try… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
If we have dwelled on Godel's work at some length, is it because we see it in the mathematical analogy of what… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like. — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
I actually got thrown into my Bar Mitzvah because my teacher, my Cantor, did not tell me that they would all say… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
A readers eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan;… — Donald E. Graham Copy Share Image
I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur.… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
Noam Chomsky is, in some ways, a victim of this new millennium we live in because you can't pull a sound bite… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
