There are days when I'll write for 15 minutes and have to give up and move around, and I'll write another paragraph… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so… — Steve Hely Copy Share Image
“Who’s your friend writing to?” Kilian asked. “She’s covered both sides of the paper.” I sobel laughed. “You.” “Me?” He touched his… — Jane Washington Copy Share Image
I'm very concerned with questions of language. This is what I think of when I think of myself as a writer: I'm… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon… — Jeff Daniels Copy Share Image
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute.… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to create an aesthetic that's my own; I'm trying to create a way understanding things through drawing and painting.… — Kysa Johnson Copy Share Image
To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Technically I've improved - I might turn a metaphor in five words now, where years ago, it would have taken me a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
There's this great Ron Carlson story, "A Note on the Type," and it's about this guy who keeps escaping from prison. He's… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a… — Emil Artin Copy Share Image
When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities. — Karl G. Maeser Copy Share Image
When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I imagine an America that can actually change. That we become a nation that prospers again but without pillaging the resources of… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
When I started graduate school we did this publishing class where we learned about submitting and read interviews with editors from different… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
