Quotes of: Paragraphs Keyword

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

Ernest Gaines

And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it.

Kurt Loder

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

Rick Moody

My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.

Geraldine Brooks

I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.

Jayne Anne Phillips

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

James Thurber

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

V. S. Naipaul

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

Carl Hiaasen

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.

James Patterson

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

Aidan Chambers

She was the kind of shopkeeper who finishes the paragraph she is reading before waiting on the customer.

Marihuana

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

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

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

Robert Peel

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

Malcolm Turnbull

When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.

Meg Ryan

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

Randy Wayne White

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

Charles Guggenheim

The torment of personal relations. Nothing new there except in the disguise, and in the escape on the wings of adjectives. Sweet to be pierced by daggers at the end of paragraphs.

Elizabeth Hardwick

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

Brendan Gill

I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.

James Rollins