Quotes by Paragraph Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. Barrett Wendell paragraph revision writing I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it Clifford Geertz paragraph sentences satisfied 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 paragraph My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal. Geraldine Brooks gals paragraph kind A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is. Gertrude Stein paragraph emotional language When in doubt, always start a new paragraph. Grace S. Richmond when-in-doubt paragraph doubt The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American. Harold Bloom paragraph prose beautiful I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph. Hector Tobar paragraph fighting writing It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition. Haruki Murakami paragraph items morning Write every day even if it is just a paragraph. Michael Connelly paragraph ifs writing He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say. Sebastian Faulks paragraph sake Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe. Stephen King paragraph breathe sometimes The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own. Stephen King paragraph writing fiction By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph. Yannis Philippakis paragraph exciting writing I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together. Jayne Anne Phillips very because paragraph together