Paragraph Quotes

173 quotes by 161 authors

I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written… — Anthony Lane
When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences. — Michael Hyatt
Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they are all a… — Deb Caletti
Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different… — Charles Simmons
To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas… — Margaret Fuller
Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday. — Ernest Gaines
I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in… — Roger Angell
When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about… — Tea Obreht
I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or… — James Rollins
I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I… — Ron Rash
We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept… — Ali Smith
I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a… — George Saunders
It's not that you get a clichÃ© and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it… — Martin Amis
There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan. — Malcolm Turnbull
You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say… — Anne Bernays
The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written… — Randy Wayne White
How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into elastic patterns called… — Joyce Carol Oates
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. — Nicholson Baker
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well. — Aidan Chambers
Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories… — Ally Carter

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