Paragraphs Quotations

A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing.

The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.

It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.

A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.

There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.

There are several paragraphs that call for changes in the way the Internet is governed today. And the U.S. has agreed to these. That's a fact.

We keep showing this to the facilitators. And they keep sending us paragraphs that don't include our changes,

Compression is a tremendous challenge. Five paragraphs on a topic is a lot for all but the most important issues.

There's a deduction for any sort of verbalization. She's up there speaking in complete sentences - near paragraphs ... she has a hard time not speaking.

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.

After the invention of printing, poetry becomes vertical, does not fill the white space completely, it is rich in new paragraphs and repetitions.

I'm trying to stay close to language first and foremost and make sure that the paragraphs sing, that it sounds like music to me.

I mean, if you think about a writer, you're going to write a novel that takes several months, but there's never a time you're doing anything more than shoving one word up against the next. And clusters of those words make sentences and paragraphs and a chapter. You just try to maintain the same voice and the same attitude so it sounds like the same person wrote the last chapter that wrote the first chapter.

I think about all my scenes. 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.

He's in every scene, almost, and has, if you'll notice, paragraphs of dialogue. I mean, an extraordinary amount of dialogue, ... That in between scenes, there isn't a lot of chitchat.