Chapters Quotes - Page 23

• Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

  Adrienne Rich

  Eye, Survival, Vision

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over every chapter. The best of us start from scratch with every new book.

  Raymond Chandler

  Book, Views, Blood

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.62, Univ of California Press

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• Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.

  Laurence Sterne

  Funny, Book, Years

  Laurence Sterne (1834). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume”, p.258

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• I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter has been preserved; and of each page, only here and there a few lines.

  Charles Darwin

  Country, Science, Two

  Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Darwin (1987). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 10: The Foundations of The Origin of the Species: Two Essays Written in 1842 and 1844”, p.21, NYU Press

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• In the concordance of Nicola Six's kisses there were many subheads and subsections, many genres and phyla - chapter and verse, cross-references, multiple citations.

  Martin Amis

  Kissing, Six, Crosses

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• Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  May, Ordinary, Doctrine

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• I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.

  Common

  Writing, People, Inspire

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter. I've always enjoyed the process and always enjoyed working more really than the end result of what it achieves. I'm more interested in doing the work.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Interesting, Achieve, Ends

  "Neil Patrick Harris The Smurfs 3D Interview". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Few stories are written about what happens to the princess after the wedding. Reading between the lines of other stories, we can sketch out her "happily ever after": The princess gets pregnant and hopes for sons. As long as she is faithful and bears sons, she is considered to be a good wife. We don't hear whether or not she's a good mother, unless something goes wrong with her children.... All of history has been written about the subsequent adventures in the chapters of his life.

  Elizabeth Debold

  Mother, Children, Women

  Elizabeth Debold, Marie C. Wilson, Idelisse Malavé (1993). “Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power”, Da Capo Press

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• Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.

  Bob Goff

  Beautiful, Titles, Embrace

  Twitter post from Oct 28, 2014

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• There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!

  Vance Havner

  Book, Two, Devil

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• Rachel Dolezal stepped down from her position as president of an NAACP chapter after it was revealed that she was a white woman pretending to be black. Now her brother says he knew about it but she asked him not to blow her cover. Unfortunately, her cover had already been blown by God when he made her a blond-haired, blue-eyed white lady.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Brother, Blow, White

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• When it's going well [writing] goes terribly fast. It isn't at all surprising to write a chapter in a day, which for me is about twenty-two pages. When it's going badly, it isn't really going badly; it's just the beginning.

  John le Carre

  Writing, Two, Twenties

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• But the closer we study their lives, and the better we know their deeds, the more profound is our admiration and the greater our reverence for the Pilgrim fathers. Between the drafting of their immortal charter of liberty in the cabin of the Mayflower and the fruition of their principles in the power and majesty of the republic of the United States of to-day is but a span in the records of the word, and yet it is the most important and beneficent chapter in history. To be able to claim descent from them, either by birth or adoption, is to glory in kinship with God's nobility.

  Chauncey Depew

  Father, Profound, Adoption

  Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910). “Club and society addresses”

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• Although I don't know Paul McCartney, a mutual friend told me that Paul was reading my book, This Is Your Brain on Music, and stopped after chapter two. McCartney said he was concerned that if he learned more about how he does what he does (as far as composing music), he may not be able to do it anymore!

  Daniel Levitin

  Book, Reading, Two

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• Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Money, Men, Giving

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1714). “Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections”, p.414

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• We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

  Ernst Haas

  Writing, Prose And Poetry, Needs

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• In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.

  Robert Reed

  Couple, Cutting, Effort

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• As I learned from chapters past, it's important to try and stay in the chapter that you're in, and enjoy it while it's lasting. Not be constantly worrying about where this step will take you - living in the potential future. Like a good meal. Like a good chef's tasting meal. You don't want to wonder what's next while you're eating the foie gras.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Past, Worry, Important

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.

  Charles Stross

  Mistake, Block, Sweat

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• There are innumerable writing problems in an extended work. One book took a little more than six years. You, the writer, change in six years. The life around you changes. Your family changes. They grow up. They move away. The world is changing. You're also learning more about the subject. By the time you're writing the last chapters of the book, you know much more than you did when you started at the beginning.

  David McCullough

  Growing Up, Moving, Book

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Pages, Possibility, Endless Possibilities

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• I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.

  John Quincy Adams

  Morning, Reading, Years

  John Quincy Adams (1970). “The Russian memoirs of John Quincy Adams: his diary from 1809-1814”, Arno Pr

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• I do try to plot about a chapter ahead once I get going. I have a list of upcoming scenes with little notes about them. But sometimes the story changes and I don't end up following that.

  Pamela Clare

  Trying, Stories, Littles

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.

  Darren Shan

  Heart, Long, Soul

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