Book Quote by Anita Desai

Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it…

— Heidi Julavits

My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.

— Claire Tomalin

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last…

— Paul Auster

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is…

— Anthony Trollope

Probably a good idea, let me know how it ends" "I already know how it ends" "You read the ending first?" "I always read…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin…

— Elmore Leonard

For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.

— Damon Lindelof

I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my next novel…

— Jonathan Trigell

If a novel or a story works, you don't stop thinking about it; it doesn't truly end.

— Peter Orner

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change…

— Sarah Addison Allen