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

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. — Paul Auster

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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. — Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

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

We all imagine happy endings to such books, pick out the page, the paragraph, in which we would step in and pluck the innocents to safety. — Ada Palmer

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

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

Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters. — Larry McMurtry

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph. — Sloane Crosley

Each word... each paragraph... each page I write gets me one step closer to my dream. — Elizabeth Paradise

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

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

He had been slowing down, the way one, half asleep, continually rereads the same paragraph trying to find a connection between sentences. — Michael Ondaatje

Personally, it's changed my game - it's how I think now. Can't imagine writing more than a paragraph in anything that doesn't do MMD. — Merlin Mann

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

1. Make the paragraph the unit of composition: one paragraph to each topic. — William Strunk Jr.

2. As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence; end it in conformity with the beginning. — William Strunk Jr.

Then we're on the same page. Same paragraph, same sentence," I snapped. "Same bloody word," he agreed flatly. — Karen Marie Moning

If you give a writer a line, they'll take a paragraph ... — Suzanne McKenna Link

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive. — Philip Roth

We will remain unwritten through history, no X will mark us on the map; but in books of prose and poetry, you loved me once, in a paragraph. — Lang Leav

It was therefore necessary to rewrite a paragraph of Big Brother's speech in such a way as to make him predict the thing that had actually happened. — George Orwell

Grab 'em in the first paragraph, hold 'em until the last period and leave them wanting more! — Bobbi Cole Meyer

the following paragraph from an article of his on British rule in India, written in 1853: — Anonymous

Never be boring, not for one scene, paragraph, sentence, or word. — James V. Smith Jr.

I suppose half a klick won on some alien rock has a price about the same as a paragraph gained in the storehouse of human knowledge. — Hugh Howey

It is far more rewarding to complete one paragraph of quality work, than one whole chapter of drivel. — Shirley Dawson

He writes a paragraph a day. A paragraph for Maya. It isn't much, but it's what he has left to give. He — Gabrielle Zevin

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

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? — Elizabeth Bibesco

Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.

(This is a reference to an E.E. Cummings poem within the author's work) — Paula Hawkins

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. — Edan Lepucki

TURN THE PAGES, DIPPING IN HERE AND THERE, READING A PARAGRAPH OR TWO, SOMETIMES SEVERAL PAGES IN SEQUENCE, NEVER MORE THAN THAT. — Mortimer J. Adler

Kiss me a paragraph and I'll reply with a novel — F Scott Fitzgerald

The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American. — Harold Bloom

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

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

Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count. — Dr. Seuss

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms — Aristotle.

Not so bad this ending because one is getting used to endings: life like Morse, a series of dots and dashes, never forming a paragraph. — Graham Greene

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is. — Gertrude Stein

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

Welcome to freakdom, Dave. It'll be time to start a Web site soon, where you'll type out everything in one huge paragraph. — David Wong

When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track. — Peter De Vries

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

Like the one-sentence paragraph, the second-person point of view can also make us suspect that style is being used as a substitute for content. — Francine Prose

All these things Alanna knew from her father's books and maps, but the reality took her breath away as a paragraph written in a book never could. — Tamora Pierce

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. — Lynn Abbey

I feel like an overwritten paragraph. — Don DeLillo

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

It's easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What's difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book you can write. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph. — Dorothy Thompson

I'm following it perfectly. Although, if this were a novel, I'd take the trouble to reread the last paragraph as carefully as possible. — Cesar Aira

You can tell a paragraph is slipping out of control when there's a runaway use of the word 'hence. — Alain De Botton

When in doubt, always start a new paragraph. — Grace S. Richmond

The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out. — Irwin Shaw

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

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column. — Don Marquis

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic. — Dirk Bogarde

I read the last paragraph of my favorite book. I remind myself that some things I love end. And that's okay.

Ari Eastman — Ari Eastman

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

Like deathbed conversions, last paragraph soul-saving does not convince. — Rosellen Brown

Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress

Listen, I'd rather lie naked in a plowed field under an incontinent horse for a week than have to read that paragraph again! — Diane Ackerman

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

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph. — Michael Connelly

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

And by the way, you really do suck in the romance department. Hallmark will never put that last paragraph on a card. — Alessandra Torre

37. On this point, and the whole paragraph, see especially Oliver O'Donovan, The Ways of Judgment (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005). — J. Ross Wagner

For life's not a paragraph/ and death, i think, is no parenthesis. — E. E. Cummings

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it. — Clifford Geertz

I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible. — Rabih Alameddine