Paragraphs Quotes
65 quotes by 65 authors
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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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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
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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
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Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.
— Stephen King
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works,…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.
— John Piper
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing.
— Emma McLaughlin
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For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs,…
— Amy Bloom
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Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the…
— Kevin J Anderson
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I think when guys send paragraphs to a girl when they know she's sleeping is adorable
— Maria Micah Rosales
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