Sixty Quote by James Thurber

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

— Aidan Chambers

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

— Tana French

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it,…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I'm having bigger problems when I'm writing.

— Markus Zusak

I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type…

— Paul Auster

I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.

— Robert Gottlieb

Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write a single…

— Sylvia Day

I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.

— Nick Hornby

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Clifford Geertz

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

— Philip Roth

“...habit of speaking in paragraphs.”

— Frank Delaney