Paragraph Quotes

The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

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

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it

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.

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

He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.

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

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

When in doubt, always start a new paragraph.

To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.