Composition Quote by Barrett Wendell

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

— Stephen King

“1. Make the paragraph the unit of composition: one paragraph to each topic.”

— William Strunk Jr

There is room for words on subjects other than last words.

— Robert Nozick

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

— Tracy Kidder

“subjects. Directions. CHAPTER XIII CHOICE OF WORDS”

— Joseph Devlin

It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.

— Theodore Sturgeon

“Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the…

— George Orwell

All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article,…

— Joseph Devlin

As Flannery O'Connor says, a person can choose what she writes but she can't choose what she makes live. Some people are really acoustic…

— George Saunders

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

— Ayn Rand

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does…

— Daniel Alarcon

I am terribly interested in the paragraph: the paragraph as an object, the construction, and the possibilities of what a paragraph can do.

— Hisham Matar