Books Quote by Annie Proulx

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

— Peter Orner

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

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

— Daniel Pennac

“When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our…

— Mizuki Nomura

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

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience…

— Alan Lightman

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Claire Tomalin

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a…

— Don DeLillo

Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you…

— Grace Paley

Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a writer writes…

— Paul Auster

“Nowhere is the sense of medium felt more strongly, even by the casual reader, than in a story about to end. For the novelist…

— Ian Gregor