Awkward Quote by Robert Rankin

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

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

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

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

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

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

My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.

— Anne Lamott

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

— Michael Connelly

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

— Stephen King

Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong. You're allowed…

— Tana French

I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to…

— Margery Allingham

I have hundreds of Word documents filled with pages of one-liners. If I begin to write a story, or if one of my thoughts…

— Chelsea Martin