Am Quote by Hisham Matar

“1. Make the paragraph the unit of composition: one paragraph to each topic.”

— William Strunk Jr

“2. As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence; end it in conformity with the beginning.”

— William Strunk Jr

The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying . . . : Have you got that? If…

— Henry Watson Fowler

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

— Paul Ricoeur

Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

— Barrett Wendell

One of the qualities of writing that is not much stressed is its problem-solving aspect, having to do with the presentation of material: how…

— Joyce Carol Oates

It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow…

— Winston Churchill

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines…

— William Strunk, Jr