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Put emotions to thoughts. Thoughts to words. Words to paragraphs. Paragraphs to pictures. Let your mind be known, heard and seen. Your thoughts are real as it could be. -- Diana Rose Morcilla
A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing. -- Emma McLaughlin
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. -- Robert Peel
I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke. -- Rush Limbaugh
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. -- Rick Moody
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. -- James Thurber
It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting. -- Liane Moriarty
For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. -- William H. Gass
When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision. -- Anthony Marra
When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often. -- Meg Ryan
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
I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies. -- Brendan Gill
A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific. -- James Patterson
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise. -- Amy Bloom
I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs. -- Roger Angell
The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors? -- Randy Wayne White
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
Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written. -- Ally Carter
I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs. -- Jim Crace
In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions. -- Ruth Rendell
It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language. -- A. E. van Vogt
A reader's eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan; a story about the reader himself or his neighbors will be read to the end. -- Donald E. Graham
Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something. -- Bill Callahan
You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a long time. I weigh the words and the sentences. I weigh the paragraphs. The process is much more meditative for me. -- Jamaica Kincaid
I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly. -- Megan McCafferty
The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages. -- Carl Honore
The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing in it for you. I write in longhand using disposable fountain pens on the right-hand side of the notebook for the first draft, then I rewrite some of the sentences and paragraphs on the left-hand side. -- Colm Toibin
Come back, paragraphs. America needs you. -- Merlin Mann
Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences. -- John Piper
Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities. -- Karl G. Maeser
Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe. -- Stephen King
Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative. -- Ernest Hemingway
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. -- William J. Clinton
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. -- Barrett Wendell
I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest. -- Nelson DeMille
In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject. -- Raymond Aron
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs. -- Clifton Fadiman
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own. -- Stephen King
When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences. -- Michael Hyatt
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Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. -- Nicholson Baker
Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain. -- William Zinsser
I begin by writing paragraphs that don't have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first. -- Grace Paley
In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes. -- Gail Sheehy
I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'. -- John Green
Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure. -- Constance Hale
Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way. -- John P. Kotter
I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there. -- Kacey Musgraves
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
Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a whole series of books. -- Daniel Handler
I'm a word freak. I like words. I've always compared writing to music. That's the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it's like music. -- Hunter S. Thompson
An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word. -- Sarah Dessen
A good solo is like a book. It will start out in a phrase, it will go on in paragraphs, and then it will have a great ending. -- Steve Vai
I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written two paragraphs. It's harsh. -- Anthony Lane
He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance could lead to paragraphs of theory. -- Michael Ondaatje
My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
I don't want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That doesn't interest me. I want everything to be essential. -- Jonathan Lethem
Each character requires different language, and these issues become inseparable. You have all these balls in the air: language, character, narrative. For me, the primary focus must be words, sentences, paragraphs. -- Dana Spiotta
Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be in as much trouble as I am! -- Henry David Thoreau
The torment of personal relations. Nothing new there except in the disguise, and in the escape on the wings of adjectives. Sweet to be pierced by daggers at the end of paragraphs. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity. -- David Sheff
How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into elastic patterns called "sentences." And these sentences into paragraphs, and beyond. -- Joyce Carol Oates
No new reader, however charitable, could open â??Fifty Shades of Grey,â? browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth. -- Anthony Lane
Unfortunately for Hillary Clinton she's a competent politician, which means she seldom says anything in less than three paragraphs. So people like the guy who just goes, "Nuh-uh, no puppet, no puppet, you're the puppet." -- Joss Whedon

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