Paragraph Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Paragraph

Please enjoy these Paragraph Quotes from the wise, the romantic, and the famous of the past and present.

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language.
By the time I get to the end of a paragraph,
I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
- Lynn Abbey

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a
paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
- Franklin P. Adams

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

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

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it.
- Clifford Geertz

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

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words,
a paragraph no unnecessary sentences,
for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary
lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
- William Strunk, Jr.

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A review was published in Nature, very scathing,
essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word.
I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days,
where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.
- Bjorn Lomborg

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

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

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

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould,
to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory,
but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given
the last polish to my work.
- Edward Gibbon

Vigorous writing is concise.
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words,
a paragraph no unnecessary sentences,
for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary
lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
- William Strunk, Jr.

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers.
My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room
catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of
books for which no one will ever ask.
- C. S. Forester

When people start writing there is this idea that you
have to get everything right first time,
every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect,
every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing
is not any kind of public show,
until you're ready for it.
- Irvine Welsh

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

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 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'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 process of composition, messing around with paragraphs
and trying to make really good prose,
is hardwired into my personality.
- Rick Moody

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

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

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

Public opinion is a compound of folly,
weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling,
obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
- Robert Peel

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

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

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

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude
until it purrs like an epigram.
- Don Marquis

Drawing is the honesty of the art.
There is no possibility of cheating.
It is either good or bad.
- Salvador Dali

Every human is an artist.
The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz

Treat a work of art like a prince.
Let it speak to you first.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
- Jerzy Kosinski

Art hurts.
Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
- Gwendolyn Brooks

Rules and models destroy genius and art.
- William Hazlitt

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
- Dale Carnegie

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
- Theodor Adorno

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art is not a thing; it is a way.
- Elbert Hubbard

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living
forms and social intercourse.
- Francis Bacon

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
- Twyla Tharp

Even a true artist does not always produce art.
- Carroll O'Connor

Art is the stored honey of the human soul,
gathered on wings of misery and travail.
- Theodore Dreiser

Art is the right hand of Nature.
The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
- Friedrich Schiller

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist,
and the less the artist does the better.
- Andre Gide

Art doesn't transform.
It just plain forms.
- Roy Lichtenstein

The more horrifying this world becomes,
the more art becomes abstract.
- Ellen Key

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome.
No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
- Andre Gide

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking
at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
- John Ciardi

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself,
and dies of all others.
- Albert Camus

The history of art is the history of revivals.
- Samuel Butler

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
- Marshall McLuhan

In art as in love, instinct is enough.
- Anatole France

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
- Henry A. Kissinger

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather,
and exposing them to the critic.
- Ambrose Bierce

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art;
men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
- E. M. Forster

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than
to continue living for art.
- Clara Schumann

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
- Jonathan Swift

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers -
and never succeeding.
- Gian Carlo Menotti

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
- Kary Mullis

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others,
to bring them into the process.
- Jim Hodges

The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
- Arthur Erickson

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art,
which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby
since I hadn't made money with it.
- Laurie Anderson

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
- Ambrose Bierce

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw,
the more of it I wanted to see.
- Paul Getty

All art is but imitation of nature.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
- Jean Rostand

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
- John Updike

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time.
Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things
which always become ugly with time.
- Jean Cocteau

The principles of true art is not to portray,
but to evoke.
- Jerzy Kosinski

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