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I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into something deep. But the fact remains that good sentences are hard won. Any writer worth a lick knows constructing a sentence, a paragraph, or a chapter is hard work.

~Adam Ross

Topics: Any Chance Chapter Constructing Deep Fact Good Hard Hard Work Knack Knows Lick Paragraph Really Remains Sentence Sentences Something Storytelling Tap Think Won Work Worth Writer You I Think

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My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.

~Adora Svitak

Topics: Alphabet Because Being Books Chapter Five Go Insisted Kindergarten Learn Local Many Me Parents Preschool Problem Reading School Should Sister Three Why Years You Your

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People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'

~Alan Moore

Topics: Answer Asked Chapter Come English First Invented Keep Long Made Me Novel Only Out People Satisfies Up Why I Can

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Everything you've ever read of mine is first-draft. This is one of the peculiarities of the comics field. By the time you're working on chapter three of your masterwork, chapter one is already in print. You can't go back and suddenly decide to make this character a woman, or have this one fall out of a window.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Back By The Time Chapter Character Comics Decide Ever Everything Fall Field Go In Print Make Mine Out Print Read Suddenly Three Time Window Woman Working You Your

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I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.

~Alonzo Mourning

Topics: Am Basketball Chapter Closing Competition Life My Life Point Reaching Slowly Standpoint Where I Am

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More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.

~Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Topics: Artificial Central Chapter Close Communist Dark Division Eastern Eastern Europe Europe European Forty Forty Years History More Now Opportunity Resulted Rule Than Unhappy Years

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We just have to go to that next class, read that next chapter, help that next person. You simply have to do that next good thing, and before you know it, you're living a good life.

~Andrew Clements

Topics: Before Chapter Class Go Good Good Life Good Thing Help Just Know Life Living Next Person Read Simply Thing You

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I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website.

~Andy Weir

Topics: Chapter Free Martian Novel Originally Posting Serial Time Website Wrote

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I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.

~Ann Voskamp

Topics: Bestowed Chapter Creativity Edit God High Mine Then Think Within Write I Write

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The prospect of coaching two of the game's most exciting and decorated players in Sue Bird and Lauren Jackson was incredibly appealing to me, and I look forward to beginning this new chapter in my career.

~Anne Donovan

Topics: Appealing Beginning Bird Career Chapter Coaching Exciting Forward Game Incredibly Jackson Lauren Look Me Most New Players Prospect Sue Two

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