First Chapter Quotes

36 quotes by 30 authors

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation. — Thomas Jefferson
Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to… — Iain Banks
On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's… — James Thayer
The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it." — Tony Hillerman
Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment. Yeah, the first chapter talks about how you shouldn't… — Conan O'Brien
That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the… — George W. Bush
There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis.… — Madeleine L'Engle
I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they… — Mike Tyson
The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of… — Jim Harrison
I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as… — Marco Polo
Most agents hate prologues. Just make the first chapter relevant and well written. — Andrea Brown
We fundamentally believe the first chapter of the Internet is over. — Barry Schuler
I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students relying on them,… — John Lewis Gaddis
In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny -… — Poppy Z. Brite
If I as a geologist were called upon to explain briefly our modern ideas of the origin of the earth and the development of life… — Wallace Pratt
If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must… — Anton Chekhov
What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the validity of any… — Richard P. Feynman
I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor… — Thomas Jefferson
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

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