There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at…

“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.”

— Thomas Harris

“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after. ...You must…

— Thomas Harris

You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me…

— John Irving

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

— Francis Quarles

I will give always my best. I will continue that until the end.

— Frank de Boer

Continue to be yourself because in the end that's what people will remember about you.

— Anonymous

The DNA of the novel - which, if I begin to write nonfiction, I will write about this - is that: the title of…

— Mary Kay Zuravleff

With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You…

— Jane Smiley

If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.

— Sylvia Plath

“When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become a person? ”

— David Lodge

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words…

— Anonymous

Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved in writing…

— Julie Klassen

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

— Mordecai Richler

When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and…

— John Green

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM”

— Wendy Wax