Chapters Quotes - Page 10

• 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 going to happen in each chapter and each scene.

  Emma Donoghue

  Plot, Needs, Planning

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• During the strict macrobiotic chapter of my life, I ate miso soup every day for breakfast and sometimes with dinner as well.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Dumb, Breakfast

  Gwyneth Paltrow (2011). “My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead.

  James Patterson

  Moving, Writing, Ifs

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• I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars and things like that, so it's something else that keeps the suspense flowing. I try not to write a chapter that isn't going to turn on the movie projector in your head.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Blow, Car

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• Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions.

  Sara Nelson

  Book, Reading, Decision

  Sara Nelson (2004). “So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading”, p.38, Penguin

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• Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival. Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity: it is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.

  Adrienne Rich

  Eye, Self, Survival

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• I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in each chapter highlighted.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Writing, The End Of The Day, Ends

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• The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, Fun, Adventure

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• God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.

  Ellen G. White

  Heart, Littles, Tests

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• Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Writing, Emotional, Childhood

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• If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.

  R. L. Stine

  Block, Writing, Way

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

  Charles Stanley

  Reading, Years, People

  "Dr. Charles Stanley: Learning to Walk Wisely". Interview with Craig von Buseck, www.cbn.com.

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• I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.

  Steven Spielberg

  School, Kids, Thinking

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• Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves.

  Jane Smiley

  Dark, Narrative, Firsts

  "The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt - review" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

  Mike Shinoda

  Moving, Ideas, Leaving

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• Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Book, Writing, Sleep

  "Sidney Sheldon's guide to success", www.cnn.com. October 19, 2000.

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• Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Media, Space

  "Passover’s Freedom Is Control Over Time" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.

  Ann Romney

  Cancer, Winter, Boys

  Ann Romney (2015). “In This Together: My Story”, p.161, Macmillan

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• I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life. I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Upset, Transition, Way

  "Daniel Radcliffe On Set Interview HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 5, 2010.

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• Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Mean, Two

  "The great unknown". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• 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 not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.

  Stockwell Day

  Knights, Groups, Use

  House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. March 24, 2005.

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• Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!

  Chris Colfer

  Book, Get Better, Ugly

  Chris Colfer (2012). “The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• I'm just beginning to live the next chapter of my life. In other words, politics - being governor and president - is not the end of my life. It's a chapter.

  George W. Bush

  President, Next, Ends

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• God doesn't want religious duty. He doesn't want a distracted, half-hearted, 'Fine, I'll read a chapter...now are You happy?' attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night.

  Francis Chan

  Religious, Attitude, Night

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.142, David C Cook

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• I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

  George Takei

  Thinking, Democracy, Glorious

  Source: www.wbur.org

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