“When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.” SaidBookTurnsNovelNew YorkMinesSellsCollectionsChaptersColleaguesPublishersNotableNew York Times Author:Julianna Baggott
“At one point I had a very complicated plan to use the game of chess as a generating structure for writing. I prepared for a long time. I finally wrote two chapters and stopped. It was too complicated and too difficult to write. And who would've read it?” WritingLongTwoUseGamesDifficultPlansLong TimeStructurePreparedComplicatedChessChapters Author:Dumitru Tepeneag
“There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesRootsInstrumentsSlaveChaptersPrimitiveBanjos Author:Bela Fleck
“As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes and whatnot, that litter the hard drive.” DifferentHardReadySceneComputerChaptersStunned Author:Alexander Chee
“I've been trying to give as much attention and focus to my life as well as my career. It's hard because the career is money, but putting that before day-to-day needs isn't something that can last indefinitely. I'm excited to begin the next chapter of my life with an amazing woman.” NeedsGivingTryingWellsHardLastsNextAttentionCareersFocusExcitedChaptersDay To DayNext ChapterAmazing Woman Author:Eric Lange
“At first, I felt bad judging an entire state by one county political official, but then I found out Morrison had also helped screen public school textbooks, a topic which is another chapter in my book. The Alamo is managed by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, a group whose members can claim a relative who was living in Texas during the revolution. The fight over mismanagement of the Alamo has been going on for years.” YearsFirstsHas BeensBookStatesSchoolPoliticalFightingFoundFeltGroupsJudgingRevolutionMembersDaughterClaimsScreensOfficialsRepublicTexasRelativeChaptersTopicsPublic SchoolCountyTextbooksMismanagementAlamo Author:Gail Collins
“We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.” WritingLongBookCountryEnoughLawNextRightsEqualPresidentialChaptersEqual RightsNext Chapter Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“The fifth doorway to experiencing Love for No Reason is the Doorway of Communication, which corresponds to the energy center located in the throat area. This doorway relates to speaking and listening with compassion, rather than judgment. There are some wonderful tools and techniques available to help us speak and listen with compassion that I've included in this chapter.” ReasonHelpingEnergySpeakCompassionWonderfulCommunicationListeningJudgmentAreasToolsAvailableTechniqueRelateNo ReasonThroatChaptersFifthDoorways Author:Marci Shimoff
“I had this big complex because I didn't go to college. There was a whole era where I got linked to everybody. People that I had never met. I was like, "How? I'm home alone reading chapter 12 of a book."” PeopleBookWholeHomeBigsReadingCollegeMetsComplexesErasChaptersLinkedMe Alone Author:Winona Ryder
“One of the things I want to do in the book is to explore how philosophy can be done in literature. I start doing that in the first chapter, by introducing the idea of "philosophy by showing". What literature/philosophy shows is how to look at some important facets of life in a new way, thus changing the frame in which subsequent philosophical argument proceeds.” WayWantFirstsLooksImportantBookIdeasDonePhilosophyShowsLiteratureArgumentPhilosophicalIntroducingChaptersNew WaysFacets Author:Philip Kitcher
“Bealer has a number of reasons for thinking that a naturalistic epistemology is self-undermining. Let me focus on one of these. (I've tried to take on all of them in the first chapter of Knowledge and Its Place in Nature.)” ThinkingFirstsSelfReasonNumbersFocusLet MeChaptersEpistemologyUndermining Author:Hilary Kornblith
“When I start writing for the day, I usually read aloud the chapter I'm working on. It gets me into it and illuminates mistakes. I'm very rhythm conscious and I do enjoy repetition.” WritingEnjoyMistakeConsciousRhythmChaptersRepetition Author:Jonathan Trigell
“[Marco] Rubio, in particular, focused on something far more elemental. Trump`s character and record as a businessman, and in the process perhaps added a few chapters to the Democrat`s play book against [Donald] Trump.” BookPlayCharacterProcessRecordsParticularTrumpDemocratFocusedChaptersBusinessmanElementalsMarcos Author:Chris Hayes
“The most surprising and rewarding chapter to write was the Butthole Surfers chapter. I'd always thought of them as a bunch of drug-addled reprobates - which maybe they were - but it turned out to be more complicated than that.” WritingDrugComplicatedBunchSurprisingChaptersSurfer Author:Michael Azerrad
“I've been in China enough to know that you shouldn't opine on it unless you speak Chinese and have lived there for twenty years. I wasn't pretending to be a China expert in that final chapter. I was just pointing, first to the parallels between Chinese behavior toward us and ours toward GB when we were at the same stage of development, and secondly to how much harder their development path is than ours was.” KnowsYearsFirstsEnoughSpeakPathStageDevelopmentBehaviorHarderTwentiesFinalsChinaChineseExpertsPretendingChaptersPointingParallelsStages Of Development Author:Charles R. Morris
“The pull of Guyland reminds us that women cannot accomplish this transformation alone. In the book's final chapter I argue that just as men need to stand up, do the right thing and break the silence that perpetuates Guyland, so, too, do women need to support each other in resisting its pull.” MenNeedsBookSilenceBreakSupportTransformationFinalsAccomplishArguingRight ThingChaptersResisting Author:Michael Kimmel
“I was raised in a religion that I never felt embraced me. That wasn't her fault. I had this amazing childhood. My mother is of her generation. If I'm going to ask her to accept me exactly as I am, I have to give her the same. She has read part of the book, but my sisters told her which chapters not to read!” IfsGivingBookMotherAsksFeltAcceptingGenerationsChildhoodFaultsRaisedMy SisterChaptersAccept Me Author:Leslie Jordan
“After the second chapter of Days of Obligation, which is about the death of a friend of mine from AIDS, was published in Harper's, I got this rather angry letter from a gay-and-lesbian group that was organizing a protest against the magazine. It was the same old problem: political groups have almost no sense of irony.” ProblemPoliticalGroupsMinesGayLettersAngryAidsObligationMagazinesIronyProtestChaptersHarperDeath Of A FriendPolitical Groups Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice from the 25th chapter of Matthew.” PeopleChristianCoursesJusticePoorKingsSoldierCommittedChaptersMatthew Author:Cornel West
“It's something that people who read my materials have asked me in the past. If you don't have principles - the last chapter of the book ["Win"] is all about winning with principles. It's all about applying words to good things, good people, good efforts. Without that inherent accuracy, then even the best words will still fail.” PeopleIfsStillsBookLastsPastWinningEffortPrinciplesFailingMaterialsGood ThingsGood PeopleChaptersInherentAccuracy Author:Frank Luntz
“Richard Nixon will always go down as a failure because of one stupid, moral - and that goes back to that last chapter, on principles.” LastsMoralPrinciplesStupidChapters Author:Frank Luntz
“I think we're on a journey....It was very easy to write about my past in my book, but writing about the present is all a new chapter. I hope that people find this journey fascinating, informative and educational.” PeopleThinkingWritingBookPastEasyJourneyEducationalFascinatingChaptersMy PastInformative Author:Donna Karan
“I worked with a writer, Kathleen Boyce. It was a wonderful experience...but I didn't expect that the last chapter would be the last chapter of Donna Karan. That was probably the biggest shock.” Would BeLastsWonderfulShockChaptersWonderful Experience Author:Donna Karan
“Our history has moved in that direction slowly at times but unmistakably thanks to generations of Americans who refused to give up or back down.Now you are writing a new chapter of that story. This campaign [2016] is about making sure there are no ceilings, no limits on any of us. And this our moment to come together.” GivingWritingMomentsStoriesTogetherGenerationsLimitsGiving UpMovedCampaignsThanksChaptersCeilings Author:Hillary Clinton
“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 chapters, and how you have to push everything else aside and really focus.” WritingBookFocusForgottenChaptersMargins Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.” ThinkingDemocracyGloriousChapters Author:George Takei
“Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family. We were raised to appreciate the teachings of animals and the untouched magnificence of raw natural beauty. This understanding of our precious and complex ecosystem has carried me throughout every chapter of my life and is a significant column of my identity.” WayUnderstandingNaturalAnimalEnvironmentTeachingIdentityLessonsAppreciateMy FamilyRaisedComplexesSignificantLife LessonChaptersRespectfulColumnsEcosystemsMagnificenceRespectful Relationships Author:Ian Somerhalder
“I think our shepherds, our pastors, can take for instance, Chapter Four [of Amoris Laetitia], 'Vive l'amore' ('How to live love'). It's a great catechesis. You can take it chapter by chapter, passage by passage, and work through it in the parish, in the communities. It's a great catechesis on marital and familial love. And I think as pastors, we can use this for our pastoral work.” ThinkingUseCommunityFourInstancePassagesChaptersOur PastPastorShepherdsParishLive Love Author:Christoph Schonborn
“[Hillary] Clinton glossed over a lot of things, left a lot of things out that people are gonna be filling in the blanks today, like [Donald] Trump. "I kept waiting on the one chapter I wanted to hear," he said, "and I didn't hear it. I kept waiting."” PeopleSaidTodayWantedLeftWaitingTrumpClintonChaptersFillingFilling In Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.” WayFirstsWellsMadeIdeasEndsWould BeLastsRememberOrderPerfectMajorsMovedProofNakedLunchChaptersPrinterMajor ChangeWhy Change Author:William S. Burroughs
“I'm excited to begin the next chapter of my life with an amazing woman.” NextExcitedChaptersNext ChapterAmazing Woman Author:Eric Lange
“We kind of have some ideas for sequels. The movie [Sausage Party] ends in a way that implies a next chapter.” WayKindIdeasEndsNextPartyChaptersSequelsSausageNext Chapter Author:Seth Rogen
“I've had chapters in my work life that have kind of coincided with the place I am in mine. I had the best-friend phase, and the pregnant-woman phase - for a while, I was pregnant in every movie.” KindMinesPregnantChaptersPhasesPregnant WomenWere Pregnant Author:Kathryn Hahn
“There are several studies done of peasant uprisings where the first chapter might be 'conditions in that area' and so the conditions are bad, and then the second chapter is a kind of conjectural event, somebody's shot and then there's an uprising. But there's no consideration, no chapter on preparation.” FirstsKindDoneMightStudyConditionsEventsShotsAreasPreparationConsiderationChaptersPeasantsUprising Author:Vijay Prashad
“Even though I have so many things to figure out, I'm very much at peace. I don't feel like I'm closing the chapter on this phase of life - I feel like I'm closing the book and starting a new one.” FeelsBookFiguresStartingChaptersPhasesClosingPhases Of Life Author:Jessica Simpson
“I'll force myself to sit down and read a couple of chapters of a great book or I'll force myself to sit and listen to some amazing music or I'll go see a play. I find that watching or experiencing other forms of art gets my brain in action. It makes me feel connected to the creative energies and then that tends to get things going.” FeelsArtBookPlayActionFormEnergyForceBrainCreativeCoupleDown AndConnectedChaptersGreat BookCreative EnergyAmazing Music Author:Dan Mangan
“The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.” HumansHas BeensLiteratureRaceHuman RaceChaptersParallels Book:India: What Can it Teach Us? Source: India: What Can it Teach Us?
“Havok ended a chapter of my life and I get to start a new one with MacGyver.” ChaptersMacgyver Author:Lucas Till
“It's always a challenge to discover the most effective first sentence, and the most effective final sentence, in a chapter for instance, and in the book as a whole.” FirstsBookWholeChallengesFinalsSentencesInstanceChapters Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“A new India which realizes its destiny in the framework of an open society, in the framework of an open economy, respecting all fundamental human freedoms great respect for pluralistic, inclusive value system. I think that's what unites India and the United States. And I do hope that working together, our two countries can write a new chapter in the history of our relationship.” ThinkingWritingHumansTwoCountryStatesTogetherValuesRealizingUnitedDestinyUnited StatesEconomyIndiaFundamentalsWorking TogetherOur RelationshipChaptersFrameworkHuman FreedomGreat RespectValue SystemsTwo Countries Author:Manmohan Singh
“It's one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it's a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there's the whole chapter before where he's the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It's fantastic.” MeanWholeFactsStoriesCoursesRolesStrangeDoctorsAccidentsFantasticChaptersNeurosurgeons Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“While this is a chapter that has closed in our life, it is not the end of the story for Randy [White] or for Paula - or maybe even Randy and Paula. And we stand in full cooperation, in full support of each other, and especially for the cause of Christ.” EndsStoriesCausesChristWhiteSupportOur LivesCooperationChaptersRandy Author:Paula White
“The really beautiful thing about each book of the Bible is that you can find God's love through each chapter because God is the author and God is love.” BookBeautifulChaptersBeautiful ThingsGod's LoveGod Is LoveReally Beautiful Author:Jennifer Rothschild
“[Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and elaborates on polemically in her 1978 book, Silences, in a chapter first delivered as a talk in 1967. As Olsen clearly saw it for women, my not being a writer was a material consequence of my being a woman - a wife, mother, housewife, and a certain kind of feminist teacher - attentive, one-on-one, face-to-face, nurturing, the kind who receives high ESCI evaluation scores from undergraduates and graduate students.” FirstsKindBookStoriesFacesMotherCertainSilenceSawsTeacherWifeStudentsMaterialsConsequenceFeministIronyScoreShort StoryGraduatesChaptersFace To FaceNurturingBeing A WomanHousewifeEvaluationOne On OneGraduate StudentsWife Mother Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“Every time we equip the church with a verse, chapter or a story from the Bible, we're really placing another weapon in the hands of the Holy Spirit that He uses to challenge and strengthen the church. I think that's very important.” ThinkingImportantStoriesUseHandsSpiritChallengesChurchHolyWeaponsHoly SpiritChaptersVerses Author:Max Lucado
“Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A” CharacterNextStrangeDoctorsChaptersNext Chapter Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I've always loved Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There's this wonderful chapter in which we get a first-person account of the monster's first impressions of the world, being in the woods and taking things in. We're seeing the world as if for the first time. That's just fascinating.” IfsWorldFirstsPersonsWonderfulSeeingFirst TimeAccountsWoodsMonstersImpressionFascinatingMaryChaptersFirst PersonSeeing The WorldFirst ImpressionShelley Author:Mordicai Gerstein
“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.” EndsNextPresidentChaptersGovernorsNext Chapter Author:George W. Bush
“I'm enjoying [my career]. If anything I'm aware that the pressure of the first, I suppose, six or seven years I was in America - I mean that energy of having such a rapid and ascending celebrity - it's not there anymore. It's the end of that chapter and now I'm just enjoying the work probably more than I ever have and yet I'm simultaneously less attached to it I think, which is kind of a strange state of grace to be in.” IfsThinkingYearsFirstsKindMeanEndsStatesAmericaEnergyEnjoyCareersGraceStrangeSixPressureSevenChaptersSeven YearsRapidsAscending Author:Colin Farrell
“It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter "Iceland" where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes.” BeautifulParticularCuriosityAncientChaptersVery BeautifulVolcanoesConjunctionsIcelandRecitingGravitas Author:Werner Herzog