Quotes on a new page using \quotchap?

Question

I am trying to use \quotchap to put some text before the chapter title using

\begin{savequote}

The Quote 

\qauthor{Quote Author}

\end{savequote}

What I wanted was to put all the text on a page before the chapter and begin the chapter on a new page. The quote and the chapter should be on facing pages. This is required as in some cases there is a lot of text which I want to put. But when there is a lot of text, this text gets overlayed with chapter title and chapter text and the result is awful. Giving \newpage after the savequote environment does not help. It can be done manually, without using any special environment, it works in some cases. But I would really like to know if it can be done with \quotchap.

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I am using \documentclass{book} with twoside format. Yes that should always be the case, each chapter is preceded by a quote.

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When I compile the code in Yiannis' answer, I get two chapters, one with and one without number. But I did not see the \aquote that you have defined and make reference to in the code. Do I have to add anything to the code above, am I missing something that needs to be done? When I try to put the \savequote before the chapter starts, it is showing up the quote text overlayed on chapter title and not on another page.

Answer 1

I think this is a very good idea with one caveat to apply it only if the previous page is a blank page. This solves the problem (which I hate of a blank page, with a note this is a blank page) Here is some code to get you going where we cater both for the star version of the command as well as the normal version. I have used a small macro for the quote to keep the code to a minimal a focus on what needs to be changed. It should work equally well with the quotchap or epigraph packages.

\documentclass[twoside]{book}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\def\aquote{The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
---Marcel Proust}
\makeatletter
\def\thickhrule{\leavevmode \leaders \hrule height 1ex \hfill \kern \z@}
\def\position{\centering}
%% Note the difference between the commands the one is 
%% make and the other one is makes
\renewcommand{\@makechapterhead}[1]{%
  \ifodd\thepage \else \clearpage \aquote \fi
  \vspace*{10\p@}%
  {\parindent \z@ \position \reset@font
        {\Huge \scshape  \thechapter }
        \par\nobreak
        \vspace*{10\p@}%
        \interlinepenalty\@M
        \thickhrule
        \par\nobreak
        \vspace*{2\p@}%
        {\Huge \bfseries #1\par\nobreak}
        \par\nobreak
        \vspace*{2\p@}%
        \thickhrule
    \vskip 40\p@
    \vskip 100\p@
  }}

%% This uses makes

\def\@makeschapterhead#1{%
   \ifodd\thepage \else \clearpage \aquote \fi
  \vspace*{10\p@}%
  {\parindent \z@ \position \reset@font
        {\Huge \scshape \vphantom{\thechapter}}
        \par\nobreak
        \vspace*{10\p@}%
        \interlinepenalty\@M
        \thickhrule
        \par\nobreak
        \vspace*{2\p@}%
        {\Huge \bfseries #1\par\nobreak}
        \par\nobreak
        \vspace*{2\p@}%
        \thickhrule
    \vskip 100\p@
  }}
\begin{document}
\chapter{The Real Numbers}
\lipsum[1-2]
\chapter*{The Imaginary Numbers}
\lipsum[1-2]
\end{document}

If this works for you post a comment and I will amend the code to suit the package.