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“A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.”

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Author:G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

“You can watch an episode of Friends or an episode of Law & Order and just drop in, but you're not going to in the middle of Season 4, Episode 5 of Lost. It's like picking up a Harry Potter book and flipping to a chapter. You have to read it from beginning to end.”

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Author:Damon Lindelof

“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.”

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Author:Anton Chekhov

“So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.”

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Book:The Country of the Pointed Firs

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs

“I once started a detective story to make moneybut I couldn't get the murder to take place! At the end of three chapters I was still describing the characters and the milieu, so I thought, this is not going to work. No corpse!”

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Author:Mary McCarthy

“I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it will be and so forth.”

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Author:John Barth

“We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter.... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race.”

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Author:James Joyce

“I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.”

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Author:Lyle Lovett

“If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter.”

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Author:Kelly Nelson