#chap

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#begin #breaking #chapters #characters #delving

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#architecture #chapel #fantastic #feel #get

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#bringing #chapel #clear #complete #end

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