Paragraph Quotes

173 quotes by 161 authors

I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it… — Paul Auster
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its… — Paul Auster
My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal. — Geraldine Brooks
And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often… — Harlan Coben
Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any of the spirit… — Truman G. Madsen
Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a… — John P. Kotter
Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities. — Karl G. Maeser
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. — William J. Clinton
On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time that the idea… — Edward Condon
Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far… — Augustus De Morgan
Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end… — Gustave Flaubert
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every… — G. M. Trevelyan
I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it… — Robert Rankin
I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly… — Alexander Woollcott
Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one… — Mark Twain
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging… — Lynn Abbey
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself,… — William Faulkner
Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line by line, word… — W. P. Kinsella

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