Quotes About Chapters

How many pages are there in my life?? I've read only a prologue.. But personally it's exciting already.

I've been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter.

Capítulos compridos quadram melhor a leitores pesadões; e nós não somos um público in-fólio, mas in-12, pouco texto, larga margem, tipo elegante, corte dourado e vinhetas... principalmente vinhetas... Não, não alonguemos o capítulo.

There were so many days, so many chapters in my life, and yet when it came down to it, if memories were objects to be saved from a fire, there would be only one or two I'd reach for before leaving the burning house.

A life isn't just the pages you know, it's everything.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.

New England's slavers and their ships did not become part of the history of American slavery, though they wrote some of its early chapters. These men would be described in their obituaries as West Indies merchants and sea commanders.

Life doesn't happen in chapters - at least, not regular ones.

You can divide my life into two.

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.

Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.

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.

There's always a few copies floating around the school, handed down from older sisters and so on,' said Kierce. 'But not for First Formers.' 'This copy still has the chapters that usually get torn out,' said Hazra with fascination. 'Look, all the positions for men and men, and women and women, and the... gosh... what is that with the feathers --' Kierce took the book back and closed it with a snap. 'Perhaps not for a Fourth Former either,' she said.

I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.

There's no ending. Because every moment is just the beginning, each a new chapter, strategically placed to take you where you're meant to be, to help you grow, to help you learn, to help you understand and to help you appreciate.

Contrary to the cavalier attitude many pastors and religious educators take on this point, the Bible's narrative ingredients do matter for how we understand what's happening in a given book or chapter, along with how these individual stories fit together.

I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.

I quite feel that an apology is due for beginning a novel with two long dull chapters full of description.

Perhaps it's time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what's important in life.

...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.

A life is similar to a book. Some chapters are boring, a few emotional, a handful memorable, others saddening, one or two thoughtful and many full of smiles.

PAGE DEDICATION CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE