Agents Quote by Andrea Brown

Avoid Prologues. They can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword.

— Elmore Leonard

I hate prologues because they're kind of gimmicks to suck you in.

— John Grisham

A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the…

— Graham Nelson

I like to start with the first chapter, end with chapter 40. No flashbacks, nothing fancy, just a direct storytelling.

— John Grisham

At one point it occurred to me that the title could make a more significant contribution to the storytelling process. It could act as…

— Saul Bass

“Before the beginning ends, start a new chapter.”

— Bhavik Sarkhedi

I always thought of episode 1 as the prologue and episode 2 as our chapter 1 for 'Loki.'

— Kate Herron

Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to…

— Stanley Schmidt

Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book is going…

— Daniel Kehlmann

In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.

— Will Hobbs

I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that strong or…

— Jim Jarmusch

Funny how someone thinks they know the entire story when they have only read the first line of chapter one.

— Abhishek Tiwari