Doe Quote by Anne Perry

I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning…Then I go…

— Truman Capote

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

— Zack Snyder

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

— Cormac McCarthy

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

— Roddy Doyle

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

— Truman Capote

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then…

— Anonymous

Writing is not what you start. It's not even what you finish. It's what you start, finish, and put out there for the world…

— Nell Scovell

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

— Gregory Maguire

I start at the beginning, go on to the end, then stop.

— Anthony Burgess

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards

Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.

— Susan Orlean

Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front…

— Elizabeth George