Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong.… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I'm just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I've got to tell you. I sweat bullets over… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
Elisabeth Sheffield's new novel is multilayered, smart, beautifully written, and funny. I was taken in by the first paragraph and held firmly… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
There's great poetry in the Old Testament and the New Testament. And I'm not interested in trying to prove whether this paragraph… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
Oh, I do a tremendous amount of rewriting. I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are sections, sometimes you're just lucky and… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it.… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I try to write in a way where you care deeply what the next paragraph will be. I hear the rhythm of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I feel that in the past, my style has shown itself to be capable of handling dark and light in the same… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
You can write a 1st paragraph that continues the same thought you expressed in your headline. If you stop a reader with… — John Caples Copy Share Image
I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actually… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
