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Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'

Geoff Dyer

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Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five.

Walter Kirn

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History is dependent on the new generation to write a new chapter.

LaMelo Ball

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I think every artist's next work will reflect a new chapter in their autobiography. Each album tells a story about where they were at during a particular period and how they have evolved.

G-Eazy

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I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle.

Jimmy Fallon

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I was in Los Angeles prepping my episode of 'Dollhouse' when the final 'Planetary' hit the stands in October. Yeah, it was surreal. One chapter closing, another opening.

John Cassaday

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'Red Hook Summer' is another chapter in my chronicles of Brooklyn.

Spike Lee

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A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your story doesn't begin in the beginning, but begins in chapter 3, then it starts with sin, and so the story becomes about dealing with the sin problem. So Jesus is seen as primarily dealing with our sins.

Rob Bell

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Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.'

Mitch Albom

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I read round the subject, I make a skeleton outline, and then I start work in the relevant archives. During the marshaling of the material, I copy the material from each archive file across to the relevant chapter in the skeleton outline.

Antony Beevor

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Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

Peter Ackroyd

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In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.

Tim Holden

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After writing several chapter books, I found my true passion: historical fiction.

Kirby Larson

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I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

Jane Haddam

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To me, there's still nothing more thrilling than, every week, people getting to see another chapter in this story that you're telling.

Greg Berlanti

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Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

Elinor Lipman

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As I work, I see my writing - each scene, each chapter, each section, each book - in three-act structures and classic myths, and I analyze them through the handy filter of the detective story.

Nick Harkaway

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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

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I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'

Vicki Lawrence

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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

Karin Slaughter

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When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.

Carl Hiaasen

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The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.

Jim Harrison

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

John Donne

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I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.

Stuart Woods

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