I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“As they say, a word to the wise is sufficient. And here I’ve gone and written five paragraphs.” — Orson Scott Card 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
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When you're inside your own story, you don't see things like a reader. You don't see your life in tidy paragraphs and… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“You can tell a paragraph is slipping out of control when there's a runaway use of the word 'hence.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
“There are no periods, no paragraphs, there’s no punctuation,” Utzschneider said. “There’s no structure to give us a sense of order.” — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
I think about all my scenes. I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
“I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers where you just repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation' and… — John Green 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
Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Decades ago, Rudolph Flesch discovered that readers were not just attracted to words, but to the breathing room between sentences and paragraphs.… — Harry Beckwith 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
A readers eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan;… — Donald E. Graham Copy Share Image
Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Everything I want to say and everything I've wished to say begins to take shape, falling to the floor and scrambling upright.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“The trouble with today's snarky pipsqueaks who break off a sentence or two, or who write a couple of mean paragraphs, is… — David Denby Copy Share Image
“My epiphany: Printed words were the shadows of referents. Things: rock, sand, onion. Ideas: carpool, justice, maximization, irrevocability. Paragraphs were composite shadows… — Tim Horvath Copy Share Image
A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing. — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke. — Rush Limbaugh 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
It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting. — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of… — Brendan Gill 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
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
My wife and I had words the other night. . . . . . . . . . Well, I had words; She had paragraphs. — Green Monk Copy Share Image
Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities. — Karl G. Maeser Copy Share Image
Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
