Chapter Quotes

525 quotes by 424 authors

Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as… — David Hewson
My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the… — Immanuel Velikovsky
Writing is so hard.... The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over, carrying you on… — Sophy Burnham
The discovery which has been pointed to by theory is always one of profound interest and importance, but it is usually the close and crown… — Oliver Lodge
One of the most beautiful verses in the Bible about Heaven is in the 21st chapter of Revelation, the fourth verse. John says, And God… — David Berg
A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with the… — John McCain
You can watch an episode of Friends or an episode of Law & Order and just drop in, but you're not going to in the… — Damon Lindelof
The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway. — Richard P. Feynman
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that… — Anton Chekhov
A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me… — Leon Uris
If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a… — David Stockman
When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you donâ€™t keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move on to the… — Stephen Reid
Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of… — Nguyen Qui Duc
Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be… — Cressida Cowell
[L]ife, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a… — Carlos Ghosn
I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs… — Billy Graham
Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses… — Stockwell Day
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. — John Donne
Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's… — Emma Donoghue

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