Sentence examples for paragraphs to kill from inspiring English sources

Writers are often advised to dispose of their cherished but superfluous paragraphs – to "kill their darlings".

By LP Maxa "I had been to Boo Radley's several times but never made the connection until I found the name in the second paragraph of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Between a backwards-told nouveau roman by Christine Brooke-Rose and a "cloth-cap" one by Catherine Cookson, he gave a paragraph to Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird.

In the paragraph that follows his promise to kill Trump should he become Hitlery, he admits that he's only really interested in the trolling game: "That said, I also don't know which candidate has the best policies.

We walk downstairs and out it tumbles, in erudite paragraphs of champagne-prose - the story of the plot to kill him.

The note ended with a paragraph in which Ms. Balcom wrote: "I don't want to kill anybody.

If this is the main character, try to kill him or her off in the very last paragraph of the story.

"It's all there, the 'matched luggage'... 'What's it like to kill a man?' the son et lumiere at 'Frankie's' flat — entire paragraphs copied verbatim from John Gardner's text".

And while you're here, why don't you see if you can turn that paragraph about the rape case I don't remember into a novel?" Digested read, digested: To Kill a Golden Goose.

Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Ruth Fremson/The New York Times The ruins of the National Palace shrouded by the haze of fumigation, an effort to kill flies and mosquitoes.

A handful of paragraphs alluding to the Robinson rape case in the 1930s (though with one crucial detail changed) were expanded to hundreds of pages in To Kill a Mockingbird.