Paragraph Long Quotes

#1. I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.

Barry Schwartz

#2. 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

#3. Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.

Ayelet Waldman

#4. I hate that he can see straight through the walls I put up.

Alexandra Moody

#5. It was an odd sort of urge, as though I had a craving to clear all the crap out of my life - but if I did that I wouldn't own anything.

Gary Reilly

#6. One cannot spend one's entire life running into bathrooms when danger calls!

Reif Larsen

#7. I often surprise myself. You can't plan some shots that go in, not unless you're on marijuana, and the only grass I'm partial to is Wimbledon's.

Rod Laver

#8. Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.

Jim Henson

#9. Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.

David B. Coe

#10. I wonder about my sister Janelle, too, who does know and wrote me this email - this long, long email that I had to close and not look at, because the first paragraph contained the words 'I forgive you', and I don't want anyone's forgiveness.

I'm not the one who has to be forgiven.

Robin York

#11. It's true, love should be balanced. Some me, enough of you, a little bit of us. But when you are in love it's hard to set boundaries. Where does he end? Where do I begin? It's blurry.

Tammy Faith

#12. I'm from the streets of New York. I know what tough talk sounds like.

Aries Spears

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. May the scribes record it.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#16. New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse ...

Harry Connick Jr.

#17. I remember when I first rocked in it was a great big dance hall and Tommy Young was blowing trombone and Louis [Armstrong] was singing a tune and it was just Satchmo and you could hear it resounding through the dance hall and people were dancing. It was a highlight.

Gordon Lightfoot