Paragraph Quotes

173 quotes by 161 authors

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive. — Philip Roth
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress
The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along.… — Lewis Thomas
On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of… — Robert Bellarmine
I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to… — Bob Dylan
You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into… — David Bowie
With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking and triumphant. A… — Skip Horack
Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I… — Sarah Vowell
Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity, the sense of… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a… — Eddie Vedder
Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged… — Peter Straub
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms — Aristotle
Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the… — Fareed Zakaria
I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take… — Margery Allingham
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. — Rick Moody
It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all… — Rickey Henderson
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains… — Erich Fromm
And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start… — Jeff Daniels
You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be… — Thomas Jefferson
During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of… — Patricia Briggs

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