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- Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along,… — Iain Banks
- I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It… — Anton Chekhov
- Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds… — Jane Smiley
- Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. — Beverley Nichols
- We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called… — Edith Lovejoy Pierce
- Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just… — Thomas Jefferson
- On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the… — James Thayer