Paragraph Quotes - Page 12

• Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

  John Piper

  Book, People, Sometimes

  John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.13, Multnomah

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• Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.

  Nancy Kress

  Character, Writing, Two

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• I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Writing, Two, Pieces

  "VS Naipaul finds no woman writer his literary match – not even Jane Austen" by Amy Fallon, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2011.

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• I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Writing, Sleep

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