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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 really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write…

— Lawrence Block

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

— Lawrence Block

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

— William Zinsser

I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do?

— Edith Pearlman

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

— Nick Hornby

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

— Clifford Geertz

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you…

— Jonathan Dee

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

— Gregory Maguire

In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.

— Raymond Aron

Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes…

— Garrison Keillor

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…

— Colm Toibin