No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
A natural hierarchy is simply an order of increasing wholeness, such as: particles to atoms to cells to organisms, or letters to… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Every artist of importance creates his own world, with its own laws - creates and shapes it in his own shape and… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I like things to be really, really funny, or really, really dramatic. Those books are certainly the ones that grab me. I… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I'm a pantser. I try to plot. I always try to plot. I end up with a few paragraphs that basically outline… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors. — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I like to think of the individual words, then you put the word in the sentence, then you have to think about… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. — Barrett Wendell Copy Share Image
Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right… — Tana French Copy Share Image
On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
