I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
If you are reading a large newspaper, all spread out on the table, your cat will come and sit on the very… — Leonore Fleischer Copy Share Image
It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up… — A. E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every… — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest. — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Research is all well and good, but I definitely enjoy writing the most. I will happily sit at my computer and work… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count. — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Welcome to freakdom, Dave. It’ll be time to start a Web site soon, where you’ll type out everything in one huge paragraph. — David Wong Copy Share Image
When I sat down and wrote the first paragraph, I was like, 'Oh, I can go with this.' I didn't do an… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
I think you learn how to write by reading an enormous amount, so then your memory is stocked with various constructions, various… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
John Silber said the single longest reference he could find to Abraham Lincoln [in Howard Zinn's History of America ] was two… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or… — Randy Wayne White Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Hay has intelligence coming out of her fingertips - integrity, insight, and wonder in every paragraph of her writing.She connects. She… — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another… — Rickey Henderson Copy Share Image
So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
