Paragraph Quotes

I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.

When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used.

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.

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.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

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

Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

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

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

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

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

When in doubt, always start a new paragraph.

It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.

Kid, not everything in life can be summed up neatly in a paragraph. No book has all of the answers. Not even the really good ones. You have to find the answers yourself sometimes.

I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.

The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.

With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.

I think you learn how to write by reading an enormous amount, so then your memory is stocked with various constructions, various ways of shaping a paragraph, shaping a chapter.

To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.

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.

Raining with words

Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language detected.

Your personality should be described in poem not in paragraph.