Books Quote by Henry Watson Fowler

“If you give a writer a line, they'll take a paragraph…”

— Suzanne McKenna Link

He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.

— Sebastian Faulks

It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.

— Liane Moriarty

You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?

— William Zinsser

I am terribly interested in the paragraph: the paragraph as an object, the construction, and the possibilities of what a paragraph can do.

— Hisham Matar

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music,…

— Paul Auster

“I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers where you just repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation' and 'To conclude'.”

— John Green

“Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave…

— Hal Zina Bennett

I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.

— Hector Tobar

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it

— Clifford Geertz

“I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers—where you just repeat what you’ve already said with phrases like In summation, and To conclude. I…

— John Green

Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.

— William Zinsser