#paragraph

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. ↗

— James Thurber

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I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality. ↗

— Richard Price

#because #cameos #different #here #i

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#best #energy #get #ink #intellectual

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#even #every #every day #just #paragraph

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#honest #i #i can #many #must

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

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

#day #freedom #lots #newspapers #next

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph. ↗

— George Saunders

#i #lot #novel #now #paragraph

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

— Irwin Shaw

#almost #always #best #last #left

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

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