#chap

I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#amazes #certain #chapters #characters #conscious thought

Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#chapters #ending #explanation #fall #get

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister. ↗

— Alex Cox

#colorless #contemporaries #harder #his #law

I am convinced that in the upcoming chapter of the struggle, I can be more useful to the inevitable change that will soon come to Cuba, to Cuba's freedom, as a private citizen dedicated to helping the heroes within Cuba. ↗

— Lincoln Diaz-Balart

#change #chapter #citizen #come #convinced

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

— John Donne

#book #chapter #dies #into #language

I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#chaplin #comparing #even #i #myself

When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me. ↗

— Immanuel Velikovsky

#child #faith #father #found #i

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down. ↗

— Errol Flynn

#chap #decent #down #expected #his

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#beautiful #chapter #evidence #great #i

Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#beauty