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

Feeling Weakness Paragraphs Compound Folly Wrong Obstinacy Opinion Public Newspaper Prejudice Public Opinion Right

Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something. Bill Callahan

You Book Song Writing Big Reading Kind Paragraphs Something Feather More Write Prose Feel Like Block

The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages. Carl Honore

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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

Day Freedom You Writing Those Paragraphs Stay Parameters Because Within Lots Short Swear Newspapers Next Use

After I finish writing a chapter, I'll print it out, cut it up into paragraphs, and cut away any transition sentences. Then I shuffle all the paragraphs and lay them out as they come. As I arrange and hold them next to each other, very quickly a natural structure for the chapter presents itself. Erik Larson

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Albums serve as paragraphs in an artist's autobiography. G-Eazy

Paragraphs Artist Autobiography Serve Albums

You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a long time. I weigh the words and the sentences. I weigh the paragraphs. The process is much more meditative for me. Jamaica Kincaid

Time Day Me You Every Day People Words Some People Long Long Time Every Carry Paragraphs Some Something More Point Write Weigh Like Know Around How Process Sentences Much Certain Certain Point

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific. James Patterson

Love You People Writing Wonderful Style Fall Paragraphs Prose Terrific Lot Times Get Stories Sentences Really

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

Me Face Definite Paragraphs Structure Developed Sixty Sentence Hardening Staring

I just typed up three, four paragraphs of an idea and dropped it in a box at the Chicago Comic Con in the summer of 2000, I guess, or 2001 - I forget. I just dropped it on a stack of a giant pile of dozens of other entries. Months later, I was thrilled to get a call from a Marvel editor while I was working my crappy day-job. Jason Aaron

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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. Nancy Kress

Truth You Truth Is Three Enough Paragraphs About Finish Attention Editor Short Short Story Story Pages Your Novel Capture Her

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. Nancy Kress

Character World Fate Few Other Sections Paragraphs John Only Individual Almost Massive Devoted Climax His Hand According Itself May Short After Short Story Story Require Separate Novel Each Brief

Sustaining a narrative in sentences and paragraphs is very different from songwriting. But the dedication to the craft and just the endurance that it takes, you know, to stick with it and believe you can pull it out and make it real and finish it, I learned that a long time ago writing songs. Rodney Crowell

Time You Writing Long Long Time Dedication Believe Out Paragraphs Finish Songs Songwriting Long Time Ago Takes Know Make Learned Stick Narrative Real Very Craft Just Different Endurance Sustaining Sentences Pull

In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions. Ruth Rendell

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