I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday. — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
“1. Make the paragraph the unit of composition: one paragraph to each topic.” — William Strunk Jr Copy Share Image
Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities. — Karl G. Maeser Copy Share Image
A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph. — Dorothy Thompson 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
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
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
By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write… — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and… — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
I can go off-point, I can go off-word, I can go off-paragraph, but I can never go off message. — Paul Heyman Copy Share Image
My movies were not reaping the kind of emotional rewards that I wanted. I wanted them to be appreciated and they weren't.… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion.… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The rhythmical unit of the syllable is at the back of all of it - the word, the phrase, the sentence, the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Kid, not everything in life can be summed up neatly in a paragraph. No book has all of the answers. Not even… — Heather Brewer 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
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
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
One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and… — Gina Berriault Copy Share Image
When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If I write a paragraph and I don't get a certain lift from it, if I don't feel connected to it emotionally,… — Oscar Hijuelos 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
Our investments continue to be few in number and simple in concept: The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in… — Warren Buffett 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
Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
