Paragraph Quotes

173 quotes by 160 authors

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once. — Tana French
I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping… — Vince Flynn
This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a whole paragraph does… — Emil Artin
Write every day even if it is just a paragraph. — Michael Connelly
When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within… — Chuck Klosterman
I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age.… — Megan McCafferty
To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a… — Hunter S. Thompson
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be… — C.S. Lewis
I'm just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I've got to tell you. I sweat bullets over every sentence, and… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in… — Edward Gibbon
I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph. — Sloane Crosley
You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your… — Carl Hiaasen
I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke. — Rush Limbaugh
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. — V.S. Naipaul
A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really… — James Patterson
Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying… — Steven Pinker
When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often. — Meg Ryan
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and… — William Strunk, Jr.
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. — James Thurber

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