Chapters Quote by Leon Uris

I try to weave a secret into each plot. It's the thread that holds the rest of the story fabric together. In fact, it's…

— Sandra Brown

“the way I used to turn the pages of a book to find out what happens in the final chapter”

— Rachel Cusk

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A…

— Maurice Blanchot

I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my next novel…

— Jonathan Trigell

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true.…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather…

— Michael Cunningham

“When I have a chapter finished, I jot down who the viewpoint characters are, what they are wearing, what happened in the chapter. So…

— Dean Wesley Smith

“This life is short, and you never know how many chapters you have left in your novel,”

— Brittainy C. Cherry

The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should know which…

— Peter Turchi

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.

— Tom Helm

“You can tell you're reading a really good book when you forget all about everything else and know you'll die if you get to…

— Christopher Paul Curtis

I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it…

— John Barth