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I was very anxious when I was writing 'Oscar And Lucinda.' I would take other books off the shelf to check my chapter length was OK.

Peter Carey

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I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

Rick Bragg

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Baseball was a chapter in my life, and now I'm excited to start another chapter as a hitting coach.

Mark McGwire

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Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre.

Lillian Russell

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The real Stephen Colbert is a practicing Catholic. He teaches Sunday school. He can recite chapter and verse of chapter and verse - from both the King James Bible and 'The Lord of the Rings.'

Kevin Bleyer

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I was very attracted to doing 'The Wolverine' in Japan because that's my favorite chapter in the story of Wolverine. But I'm not a superhero guy.

Guillermo del Toro

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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

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Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Beverley Nichols

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I started 'American Born Chinese' as a mini-comic. I would write and draw a chapter, photocopy a hundred or so copies at the corner photocopy store, and then try to sell them on consignment through local comics shops. If I could sell maybe half a dozen, I'd be doing okay.

Gene Luen Yang

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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.

Xavier Becerra

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He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.

LaToya Jackson

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I gotta be honest with you... I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them.

Garth Stein

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I like to start with the first chapter, end with chapter 40. No flashbacks, nothing fancy, just a direct storytelling.

John Grisham

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In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information in chapters three and 11.

Sophie Hannah

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If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.

Robert Caro

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I continue to do something I've done since I was 18, and that is read a chapter of Proverbs every day as part of my daily devotion. I still maintain that.

Mike Huckabee

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You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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If you make a trilogy, the whole point is to get to that third chapter, and the third chapter is what justifies what's come before.

Peter Jackson

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Chapter 11 is an expensive process that does not accommodate the special needs of farmers.

Tim Holden

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I'm a great planner, so before I ever write chapter 1, I work out what happens in every chapter and who the characters are. I usually spend a year on the outline.

Ken Follett

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'The Vampire Diaries' is a serialized drama. It deserved its final chapter.

Julie Plec

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If you go wrong in a novel, you can straighten it out in the next chapter. You don't have any room to do that in a novella.

Gilbert Morris

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Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?

Elizabeth Bibesco

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People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'

Alan Moore

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