Paragraph Quotes

173 quotes by 161 authors

If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone… — Regina Brett
The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing… — Colm Toibin
Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books… — Jeffrey Eugenides
since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring… — E E Cummings
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set… — Ezra Pound
It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition. — Haruki Murakami
life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis — E E Cummings
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might… — Franklin P. Adams
Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line… — William Goldman
It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a… — Laurie Halse Anderson
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the… — Mark Twain
No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actually okay, because I… — Chuck Klosterman
Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe. — Stephen King
An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have… — Sarah Dessen
If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I… — Katherine Anne Porter
In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when… — Douglas Adams
I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'. — John Green
So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that, when reading is… — Nick Hornby
There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it. A simple stroll… — Frank McCourt
It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought. You… — Markus Zusak

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