Chapters Quote by Tony Hillerman Download Open image “The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."” — Tony Hillerman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chapters Firsts Law Time Writing
You can't start a new chapter of the book if you keep re-reading the last one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
You can't start a new chapter in your life if you keep re-reading the last one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Finish the book. Finish the book, regardless of how bad it is. You can make it better in a rewrite.” — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
You can't start the new chapter of life if you keep re-read the last one — Sushan Sharma Copy Share Image
“If this were a novel, you'd have to start a new chapter as soon as I appeared.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
You can't start the next chapter in your life if you keep re-reading the last one. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“But if I'd known I was going to live so damn long, I'd have taken better care of myself.” — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff. — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place. — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
“Someone had been digging. Someone had been looting. A pot hunter. A Thief of Time.” — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Heaven is referred to in fifty-four of the Bible's sixty-six books, and the final two… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need… — Stuart Woods Copy Share Image
There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
If you're feeling pain, express that to the Lord. If you're feeling worried, express those worries. One passage that gives me comfort is in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
I learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes to write… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent. Would you prefer me to read from Daphne's Three Tender Months with Harold or… — David Levithan Copy Share
Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same rules, you know. . . It’s just that there are more of them. Everyone has chapters and cliffhangers. Everyone has their journey to make. Some go far and wide and come back empty-handed; some don’t go… — Chris Wooding Copy Share
Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners. — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
I pay tribute to John Major's achievement in persuading the other 11 Community Heads of Government that they could move ahead to a Social Chapter but not within the treaty and without Britain's participation. It sets a vital precedent. For an enlarged Community can only function if we build in flexibility of that kind... John Major deserves high praise for… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share