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Saturday, October 23, 2021

The First Paragraph

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest comes out very easily.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez in For Writer's Only (1994) by Sophy Burnham

1 comment:

  1. It may just be an urban legend, but I did read someplace that Margaret Mitchell wrote the last chapter of "Gone with the Wind" first, before anything else.

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