Paragraph Quotes

173 quotes by 161 authors

When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where… — David Sheff
What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter;… — Salman Rushdie
Welcome to freakdom, Dave. Itâ€™ll be time to start a Web site soon, where youâ€™ll type out everything in one huge paragraph. — David Wong
He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance could… — Michael Ondaatje
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of… — Richard Powers
Iâ€™m a word freak. I like words. Iâ€™ve always compared writing to music. Thatâ€™s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works,… — Hunter S. Thompson
Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences. — John Piper
Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be… — Henry David Thoreau
He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say. — Sebastian Faulks
To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph… — Gail Carson Levine
I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a… — Ray Bradbury
As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident… — Joan Didion
Kid, not everything in life can be summed up neatly in a paragraph. No book has all of the answers. Not even the really good… — Heather Brewer
The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change oneâ€™s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The… — James Salter
The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago,… — Marianne Williamson
Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a whole… — Daniel Handler
The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to… — David Levithan
Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very little to do… — Siri Hustvedt
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have… — William Strunk, Jr.
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute. — Franklin Pierce Adams

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