Paragraph Quotes
173 quotes by 161 authors
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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
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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
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My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
— Geraldine Brooks
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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
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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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
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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
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Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.
— Karl G. Maeser
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I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.
— William J. Clinton
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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
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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
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Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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