It's always a challenge to discover the most effective first sentence, and the most effective final sentence, in a chapter for instance,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter "Iceland" where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Style is like voice, it grows organically from the truth of one's own life experience. Not in terms of chapters, per se,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
You may be sick of what you did the first half of your life, but you don't just have to walk around… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection… — Tim Holden Copy Share Image
I love the songs we've written together [with Ivo Moring] and believe that Rock music is coming back with a vengeance. There… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
Yes, we could talk to you for days on end about all the bad first dates. Those are stories. Funny stories. Awkward… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. The beginning is glorious, especially if you're lucky enough not… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page,… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Since taking office, I've made it clear that the United States was prepared to begin a new chapter of engagement with the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful verses in the Bible about Heaven is in the 21st chapter of Revelation, the fourth verse. John… — David Berg Copy Share Image
I've always loved Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There's this wonderful chapter in which we get a first-person account of the monster's first impressions… — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
When I start writing for the day, I usually read aloud the chapter I'm working on. It gets me into it and… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning.… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story… — Arthur Herzog Copy Share Image
The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
I know that so many of us hoped that, by electing our first black president, we had turned the page on this… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter… A priest-ridden Godforsaken… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year… My custom is, to… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all… — Stuart Woods Copy Share Image
[Hillary] Clinton glossed over a lot of things, left a lot of things out that people are gonna be filling in the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Yes, definitely I do feel betrayed, but I've got to take everything that's happened and learn from it. I accept that that's… — Cheryl Cole Copy Share Image
Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Now that I'm experiencing motherhood, I'm ready to write the next chapter of my family story. Of course a few jaded folks… — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
The only parents in the world who don’t need sleep, and our child already sleeps through the night. Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn,… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life.… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I think that Yes' music is kind of on its own out there, and it goes through different chapters, and that involves… — Geoff Downes Copy Share Image
Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you… — Carlo Collodi Copy Share Image
What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Heaven is referred to in fifty-four of the Bible's sixty-six books, and the… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
It's not unheard of, in the course of life, that if there's enough interest in it, we could consider going a second… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that… — Lyle Lovett Copy Share Image