Books Quote by Anthony Trollope

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are…

— John Irving

In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.

— Will Hobbs

“My story hasn’t been written yet, but I know it begins with you.”

— Emma Chase

The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“The characters write the story … I just get to be the first one to read it!”

— Sam Bradley

“A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I…

— Mark Twain

“a story will tell itself, when it’s ready.”

— Jodi Picoult

A new writer starting out today, whether it's for TV or film, they have to remember that they're telling the story to themselves first…

— Tony Grisoni

Beginning authors often get in their own way … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … The important thing…

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.”

— George Saunders

“You think you know how a story begins, or how it's going to turn out, especially when it's your own. You don't.”

— Edan Lepucki

“Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and…

— Richelle E. Goodrich