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What writers & others say<\/h2>\n

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“The key to a good story structure is to write a great beginning and a great ending and keep them close together.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Anonymous<\/h6>\n
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“Men die because they cannot join the beginning to the end.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Alcmeon of Croton, a philosopher and teacher in the Pythagorean school quoted by Kenneth Atchity in A Writer\u2019s Time<\/em><\/h6>\n
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“As narratives, they felt defiantly shapeless and almost humorously static. They didn\u2019t head toward a destination; they went down culs-de-sac, performing frequent U-turns and handbrake skids; and they waited in jams. In particular, they didn\u2019t ‘end.’ They just stopped.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Martin Amis, author and critic, on Don DeLillo\u2019s novels<\/h6>\n
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“Text structure does have an important effect on learning. The better organized the text and the more apparent the structure to the reader, the higher the probability that the reader will learn from reading.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Bonnie Armbruster, Ph.D., professor of education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/h6>\n
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“Comprehension and composition bear a reciprocal relation to each other.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Robert C. Calfee, Ph.D, professor of education and psychology at Stanford University<\/h6>\n
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“‘Begin at the beginning,’ the King said, gravely, ‘and go on till you come to the end; then stop.\u2019”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Lewis Carroll, in Alice<\/em>\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em><\/h6>\n
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“In order to write something big, it really helps me to think of the constituent parts. What are the basic units or elements? What are the chapters? That helps with my research \u2014 filling up my chapter files. And it helps with my drafting \u2014 writing one chapter at a time.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Roy Peter Clark, author, How to Write Short<\/i><\/h6>\n
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“Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Joan Didion, American journalist, essayist and novelist<\/h6>\n
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“Prose is architecture. It\u2019s not interior design.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize-winning novelist<\/h6>\n
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“The crafts of writing and carpentry are deceptively simple. The carpenter has to begin with a plan; the writer must begin with a thought. There must be at least the germ of an idea. Before the first board is nailed to the second board, or the first word connected to the second word, there has to be some clear notion of where we expect to be when we have finished nailing or writing.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 James J. Kilpatrick, author, The Writer\u2019s Art<\/em><\/h6>\n
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“The catalog entries now had lengthy analytical essays and illuminating reproductions of other pictures, whether they related or not: a minimalist Agnes Martin might be accompanied by an illustration of the Mona Lisa, whose best connection to the picture in question might come under a TV game show category, ‘things that are rectangular.\u2019”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Steve Martin, author, in An Object of Beauty<\/i><\/h6>\n
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“Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline \u2014 exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 David Ogilvy, “the father of advertising”<\/h6>\n
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“God is in the structure.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Richard Preston, author, The Demon in the Freezer,<\/em> quoted by Jack Hart in A Writer\u2019s Coach<\/a><\/em><\/h6>\n
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“Organization is what you do before you do it, so when you do it, it\u2019s not all messed up.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Winnie The Pooh<\/h6>\n
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