Am Quote by Hisham Matar

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…

— Hunter S. Thompson

When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track.

— Peter De Vries

With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very…

— William Boyd

When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences.

— Michael Hyatt

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

— William Zinsser

Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should…

— William Strunk, Jr

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.

— Dirk Bogarde

The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years…

— Marianne Williamson

A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.

— Renata Adler

I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've…

— Anthony Lane

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti