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For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity Picture Quote #1

To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it, seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph, mere stops Picture Quote #1

The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories Picture Quote #1

Look at almost any passage, and you’ll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It’s not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it’s just that that’s the way language works Picture Quote #1

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it’s a paragraph Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you’re on page 300. You can’t do that with film. It just charges ahead Picture Quote #1

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms Picture Quote #1

You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you’re gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you’re gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself Picture Quote #1

If you are reading a large newspaper, all spread out on the table, your cat will come and sit on the very paragraph you are reading, the talented cat draping her tail with miraculous precision over the very line you’re not finished with Picture Quote #1

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found Picture Quote #1

When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I’m on the right track Picture Quote #1

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My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along Picture Quote #1

The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn’t is that you push through the parts where you know that you’ve just written seven pages when all you’re looking for is one paragraph Picture Quote #1

I’m just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I’ve got to tell you. I sweat bullets over every sentence, and sometimes, you know, a day will pass and I’ve written one paragraph, and I’ve been at the computer for four hours Picture Quote #1

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found Picture Quote #1

It’s not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don’t take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it style. What you’re trying to do is be faithful to your perceptions and transmit them as faithfully as you can. I say these sentences until they sound right. There’s no objective reason why they’re right. They just sound right to me Picture Quote #1

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For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity (Paragraph Quotes) To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it, seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph, mere stops (Paragraph Quotes) The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories (Paragraph Quotes) Look at almost any passage, and you’ll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It’s not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it’s just that that’s the way language works (Paragraph Quotes) I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it’s a paragraph (Paragraph Quotes) 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 (Paragraph Quotes) With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you’re on page 300. You can’t do that with film. It just charges ahead (Paragraph Quotes) How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms (Paragraph Quotes) You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you’re gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you’re gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself (Paragraph Quotes) If you are reading a large newspaper, all spread out on the table, your cat will come and sit on the very paragraph you are reading, the talented cat draping her tail with miraculous precision over the very line you’re not finished with (Paragraph Quotes) There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found (Paragraph Quotes) When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I’m on the right track (Paragraph Quotes) My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along (Paragraph Quotes) The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn’t is that you push through the parts where you know that you’ve just written seven pages when all you’re looking for is one paragraph (Paragraph Quotes) I’m just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I’ve got to tell you. I sweat bullets over every sentence, and sometimes, you know, a day will pass and I’ve written one paragraph, and I’ve been at the computer for four hours (Paragraph Quotes) To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found (Paragraph Quotes) It’s not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don’t take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it style. What you’re trying to do is be faithful to your perceptions and transmit them as faithfully as you can. I say these sentences until they sound right. There’s no objective reason why they’re right. They just sound right to me (Paragraph Quotes)

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