Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
When in doubt, always start a new paragraph.
Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.
It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.
The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.
I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.
I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it
I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it.
Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.
He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.
I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.
I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.
I can be just as effective with a quick retort or a one-liner than with a big paragraph.
My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.
I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
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.
The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.
By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph.
I am terribly interested in the paragraph: the paragraph as an object, the construction, and the possibilities of what a paragraph can do.
Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?
I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.
No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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.
I've kind of changed my diet, but in my diet rulebook, on section 5 paragraph A, there's a cheating plan. So, Corky's BBQ is one of my favorite spots to go to.
I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality.
Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it.
I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.
The very fact that Barack Obama - an African-American - was twice elected to the presidency will always be the lead line in that hard-to-meld, gold-plated paragraph.
It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.
Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?
I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesn't hurt, either.
I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.
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.
The rhythmical unit of the syllable is at the back of all of it - the word, the phrase, the sentence, the syntax, the paragraph, and the way the heart moves when you read it.
I don't have problems starting writing. I have problems stopping. I'm one of the last dads to arrive at school to collect the kids, because I want to get this paragraph just right.
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.
I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.
Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very little to do with conscious control or manipulation.
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.