#paragraph

And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from? ↗

— Philip Pullman

#am #bang #before #begin #come

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#begin #breaking #chapters #characters #delving

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

#difficult #english #english language #feel #i

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#did #i #must #page #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

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. ↗

— Rick Moody

#composition #good #good prose #into #make

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#advance #encountering #explore #i #i see

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

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