When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the… — Immanuel Velikovsky Copy Share Image
The trick in writing children's books is to set up danger, mystery and excitement on page one. Force the kid to turn… — Jerry West Copy Share Image
If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we're proudest are the ones where we had the courage to… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Very few people have actually had a chance to see the raw material that was going to comprise these three chapters [of… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family.… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
The war against Russia is an important chapter in the German nation's struggle for existence. [...] The objective of this battle must… — Franz Halder Copy Share Image
I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God,… — Aaron Huey Copy Share Image
Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
In 1982 I bought the newly released Makina Plaubel 55mm fixed-lens camera. With this shift from 35mm to 6 x 7, I… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“And that’s just the way it is…eventually, we all become chapters in somebody’s story, even the briefest of encounters give them something… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I do try to plot about a chapter ahead once I get going. I have a list of upcoming scenes with little… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
I think we're on a journey…It was very easy to write about my past in my book, but writing about the present… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The really beautiful thing about each book of the Bible is that you can find God's love through each chapter because God… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
I'm going to take off your gag.And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book.… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
In Matthew, chapter 6, verse 21, the scriptures teach us that where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. My… — Ted Strickland Copy Share Image
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I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long,… — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
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I planned the exhibition so that it becomes a story where the viewer travels through these islands [of ideas]. Whether the contents… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish. — David Crabb Copy Share Image
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