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“When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.”

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Author:Tea Obreht

“I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.”

Ifs Writing Two Stories Couple Pages Everyday Momentum Paragraph

Author:James Rollins

“I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.”

Stories Decision Novel Conscious Sentences Dialogue Rhythm Length Dozen Always Believe Paragraph Placement Flashback

Author:Ron Rash

“I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.”

Writing Years Stories Novel Short Story Paragraph

Author:George Saunders

“The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.”

Firsts Different Ends Stories Lasts Hundred Paragraph Different Directions

Book:Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson

Source: Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson

“I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragrapheach sentence, evenas I go along.”

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Author:William Styron

“The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.”

Stories Lasts Literature Left Paragraph Left Out

Author:Irwin Shaw