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It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.


Edward Gibbon


#always #been #cast #deposit #ear

When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.


Irvine Welsh


#chapter #doing #every #everything #first

Gordon Edgley's sudden death came as a shock to everyone - not least himself. One moment he was in his study, seven words into the twenty-fifth sentence of the final chapter of his new book, And the Darkness Rained upon Them, and the next he was dead. A tragic loss, his mind echoed numbly as he slipped away.


Derek Landy


#first-paragraph #humor #young-adult #death

Vigorous writing is concise. 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.


William Strunk, Jr.


#contain #drawing #lines #machine #paragraph

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.


Michael Connelly


#even #every #every day #just #paragraph

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


Clifford Geertz


#leave #never #paragraph #satisfied #sentence

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.


Kurt Loder


#gonna #good #i #i think #interesting

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.


Robert Peel


#feeling #folly #newspaper #obstinacy #opinion

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


#disciplined #even #everyday #going #i

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.


Vera Nazarian


#grammar #language #languages #letter #literacy






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