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Albums serve as paragraphs in an artist's autobiography.
G-Eazy / Rapper
Albums
Autobiography
Paragraphs
Serve
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I even dream about writing. I'm talking seeing words across the page, whole paragraphs.
George Pelecanos / Author
Page
Paragraphs
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A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing.
Emma Mclaughlin / Novelist
Depressing
Hallmark
Stranger
Card
Paragraphs
Vaguely
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I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.
Rush Limbaugh / Talk Show Host
New York
Honest
New York Times
Puke
Stories
Only
Before
Read
Times
Must
Paragraphs
Story
York
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You play a hologram on 'Star Trek,' and you have to spew line after line. I spoke in paragraphs on 'Star Trek.'
Robert Picardo /
Paragraphs
Star Trek
Trek
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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Robert Peel / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Feelings
Folly
Obstinacy
Opinion
Prejudice
Public Opinion
Weakness
Compound
Public
Wrong
Feeling
Newspaper
Paragraphs
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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 / Actress
Great
Eloquent
Heels
High Heels
Speak
Vocabulary
Them
Often
High
Wear
Paragraphs
Plan
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The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
Rick Moody / Novelist
Composition
Personality
Process
Prose
Trying
Hardwired
Messing
Paragraphs
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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 / Author
Cutting
Polished
Pride
Editor
Paragraphs
Re-Read
Suggest
Tenderly
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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
James Thurber / Cartoonist
Birthday
Smile
Definite
Faces
Sarcastic
Sixty
Staring
Structure
Writing
Developed
Hardening
Paragraphs
Sentence
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As I sat in a small room constructing what seemed to me awkward sentences and paragraphs, McCone was out having exciting adventures.
Marcia Muller / Author
Sentences
Adventures
Constructing
Paragraphs
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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 / Critic
Blue
Butterfly
Clouds
Eye
Facts
Greater
Weight
Butterflies
Cloud
Cram
Paragraphs
Shape
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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 / Veterinarian
Couple
Everyday
Momentum
Two
Writing
Pretty
Disciplined
Page
Paragraphs
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For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.
Amy Bloom / Writer
Breadth
Depth
Lasts
Novel
Short Story
Stories
Surprise
Short
Paragraphs
Poem
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When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision.
Anthony Marra / Writer
Block
Format
Now And Then
Redundant
Afford
Paragraphs
Requires
Sentence
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For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.
William H. Gass / Novelist
Country
Eye
Landmarks
Passages
Reader
Sex
Airport
Flies
Paragraphs
Reference
Speedy
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I'm influenced by Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace: writers who are often not content to just stack paragraphs and have to break out of that.
Jesse Andrews /
Dave
Jennifer
Foster
Influenced
Paragraphs
Stack
Wallace
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The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
Nancy Kress / Fiction Writer
Capture
Pages
Short Story
Truth Is
Editor
Finish
Paragraphs
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I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.
Roger Angell / Essayist
Baseball
Long
People
Sentences
Paragraphs
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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 / Author
Falling In Love
People
Prose
Sentences
Terrific
Writing
Paragraphs
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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 / Writer
Anchors
Extraordinary
Four
Honestly
Three
Written Word
Ancestors
Paragraphs
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Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.
Kevin J. Anderson / Author
Literature
Sentences
Typing
Use
Years
Arranged
Meaning
Paragraphs
Trained
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Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.
Bill Callahan /
Block
Prose
Feather
Paragraphs
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I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.
Jim Crace / Writer
Driven
Empty
Fortnight
Fright
Heavens
Page
Paragraphs
Thank
Untouched
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It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.
A. E. Van Vogt / Author
Break Up
Smile
Breakup
English Language
Interesting
Pages
Usage
Me Difficult Feel
Solid
Page
Paragraphs
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There is a dumbing down of the news. Newspapers today seem more like tabloids. I have to wade through seven newspapers before I can find a couple of paragraphs that are serious news. What a pity!
Shabana Azmi /
Newspapers
Pity
Tabloids
Wade
Paragraphs
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There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.
Nancy Kress / Fiction Writer
Add
Sentences
Drafts
Intelligible
Lean
Paragraphs
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A reader's eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan; a story about the reader himself or his neighbors will be read to the end.
Donald E. Graham / Executive
Pakistan
Reader
Developments
Neighbors
Paragraphs
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Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written.
Ally Carter / Author
Notebook
Boxes
Filled
House
Parent
Stories
Aspiring
Writers
Houses
Notebooks
Paragraphs
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I'm very aware when I share a stage with other writers that I'm much less driven than they are. I don't wake up in the middle of the night, pregnant with paragraphs. I don't suffer for my text twenty-four hours a day.
Jim Crace / Writer
Driven
Pregnant
Wake Up
Paragraphs
Suffer
Text
Twenty-Four
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You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a long time. I weigh the words and the sentences. I weigh the paragraphs. The process is much more meditative for me.
Jamaica Kincaid / Novelist
Sentences
Time Me Long
Carry
Certain Point
Paragraphs
Weigh
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When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day.
Chuck Klosterman / Author
Newspapers
Next Day
Swear
Use
Writing
Lots
Paragraphs
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Asking myself, 'Is this any good?' is pointless. It just slows down my writing, and I can't tell anyway. 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 / Author
Cutting
Pointless
Pride
Good Myself Always
Good Myself Pride
Anyway
Editor
Paragraphs
Re-Read
Suggest
Tenderly
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My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Tin Pan Alley, rock and roll. They tease or lead or hurl me into a dream space of jostling languages that I need to bask in each day in order to write.
Margo Jefferson / Critic
Each Day
Rock And Roll
Tease
Tin
Space Mind Me
Alley
Languages
Stevie
Hurl
Pan
Paragraphs
Quotes
Smith
Stuffed
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I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.
Megan Mccafferty / Author
Book
Computer
Cutting
Revising
Wonder
Writing
Grown
Paragraphs
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In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions.
Ruth Rendell / Baroness Rendell Of Babergh
Judging
Stories
Future Work People
Activities
Disclose
Short
Writers
Particularly
Work Future People
Motives
Intentions
Noticed
Novice
Paragraphs
Readers
Recent
Reveal
Short Stories
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I think about all my scenes. I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around, and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.
Megan Mccafferty / Author
Cutting
Revising
Grown
Paragraphs
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A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.
Nancy Kress / Fiction Writer
Climax
Devoted
Fate
Massive
Sections
Short Story
According
Brief
Paragraphs
Require
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Sustaining a narrative in sentences and paragraphs is very different from songwriting. But the dedication to the craft and just the endurance that it takes, you know, to stick with it and believe you can pull it out and make it real and finish it, I learned that a long time ago writing songs.
Rodney Crowell / Musician
Endurance
Long Time Ago
Narrative
Sentences
Songwriting
Sustaining
Craft
Finish
Paragraphs
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After I finish writing a chapter, I'll print it out, cut it up into paragraphs, and cut away any transition sentences. Then I shuffle all the paragraphs and lay them out as they come. As I arrange and hold them next to each other, very quickly a natural structure for the chapter presents itself.
Erik Larson / Journalist
Natural
Next
Sentences
Shuffle
Structure
Writing
Come
After
Arrange
Away
Chapter
Itself
Cut
Each
Finish
Hold
Lay
Paragraphs
Presents
Quickly
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
Carl Honore / Journalist
Bedtime
Classic
Fairy
Gentle
Pace
Pages
Parent
Praise
Tales
Brothers
Fairy Tales
Paragraphs
Slow
Skipping
Spark
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I just typed up three, four paragraphs of an idea and dropped it in a box at the Chicago Comic Con in the summer of 2000, I guess, or 2001 - I forget. I just dropped it on a stack of a giant pile of dozens of other entries. Months later, I was thrilled to get a call from a Marvel editor while I was working my crappy day-job.
Jason Aaron / Writer
Chicago
Comic
Summer
Box
Con
Crappy
Dozens
Dropped
Editor
Giant
Marvel
Paragraphs
Pile
Stack
Thrilled
Typed
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With this 'social media,' instead of letters you get emails. They're all written in a hurry, with no punctuation, no paragraphs - it's one continual stream, with spelling mistakes. Quite frankly I think it's a world I don't need. But I have to read them all because people say, 'Did you get my letter?' And it's not even a letter!
Dennis Skinner / British Politician
Letters
Media
Punctuation
Social Media
Spelling
Written
World Social Media People
Mistakes
Emails
Frankly
Hurry
World People Media
Instead
Letter
Paragraphs
People Say
Quite Frankly
Stream
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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 nothing in it for you. I write in longhand using disposable fountain pens on the right-hand side of the notebook for the first draft, then I rewrite some of the sentences and paragraphs on the left-hand side.
Colm Toibin / Novelist
Notebook
Disposable
Fountain
Hands
Opening
Paragraph
Pens
Sentences
Stories
Writing
Written
Your Will Rest
Draft
Rest
Longhand
Paragraphs
Rewrite
Using
Worked
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