Paragraph Quotes - Page 3

• When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie.

  Trent Reznor

  Careers, People, Mentor

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• When I'm constructing a poem, I'm trying to write one good line after another. One solid line after another. You know a lot of the lines - some hold up better as lines than others. But I'm not thinking of just writing a paragraph and then chopping it up.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• 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

  Notebook, House, Parent

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• There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Dumb, Trying, Down And

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Children, Writing, Together

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• There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay for; and having done this, their next step is to fill the newspapers with paragraphs of the scarcity of money and the necessity of a paper emission, then to have a legal tender under the pretense of supporting its credit, and when out, to depreciate it as fast as they can, get a deal of it for a little price, and cheat their creditors; and this is the concise history of paper money schemes.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Scarcity, Credit

  Thomas Paine (1830). “Brief sketch of the life of Thomas Paine. Common sense. Epistle to Quakers. The crisis. Public good. Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Dissertations on government, the affairs of the bank, and paper money. Miscellaneous”, p.405

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• 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

  Book, Phrases, Goes On

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• The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work.

  Sid Fleischman

  Children, Book, Impact

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• Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

  Joe Abercrombie

  Book, Thinking, Way

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• 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

  Fall, Army, Soldier

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• This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a whole paragraph does not appeal to the reader. In most cases he will be able to go on and later he may return to the parts which he skipped.

  Emil Artin

  Science, Important, Doe

  Emil Artin (2016). “Geometric Algebra”, p.7, Courier Dover Publications

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• There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

  Charles Guggenheim

  Tunnels, Slave Labor, Digging

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want to write, even though they find crafting sentences and paragraphs unpleasant. They hope there is a way to write without writing. I can tell you with certainty there isn’t one.

  Scott Berkun

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Personally, it's changed my game - it's how I think now. Can't imagine writing more than a paragraph in anything that doesn't do MMD.

  Merlin Mann

  Writing, Thinking, Games

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• 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

  Writing, Adventure, Argument

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• In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture the essence of a character in a single conversational exchange, or show us the gulf between his soulful heroine and her dull-witted husband in a sentence (and one that, moreover, presages all Emma's later experience of men). (...) This is one of the summits of prose art, and not to know such a masterpiece is to live a diminished life.

  Michael Dirda

  Art, Husband, Character

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• I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.

  Vince Flynn

  Memories, School, Trying

  "Glenn Beck: An Hour With Author Vince Flynn". "Glenn Beck", www.foxnews.com. November 20, 2009.

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• To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Gail Carson Levine (2012). “Fairest”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

  Dan Jenkins

  Leadership, Sports, Football

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• It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought. You lovely bastards. Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this.

  Markus Zusak

  Love, Thinking, Age

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.515, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching; instead of herding cattle, I herd books. Writing is a form of herding, too; I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.

  Larry McMurtry

  Book, Writing, Animal

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• 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

  Morning, Writing, Two

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• When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences.

  Michael Hyatt

  Writing, Long, Add

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• Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they are all a line or a paragraph in our own life manuscript. Two thirds of the way through, even, and it all won't necessarily make sense, but at the end there'll be a beautiful whole, where every sentence of every chapter fits.

  Deb Caletti

  Beautiful, Two, Long

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different minds, and their common influence upon all minds.... It is therefore high time our most valuable aphorisms and paragraphs were put in order for frequent perusal, and for handy reference, as the circumstances of life call up subjects.

  Charles Simmons

  Witty, Order, Expression

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.3

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