Books Quote by Anthony Trollope

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so…

— Richard Russo

I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down - it feels…

— Dan Chaon

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already…

— Anita Desai

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

— Peter Orner

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

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

— Claire Tomalin

I work very deliberately, with a plan. But sometimes I come to a point that I planned as the end and it needs softening.…

— Colm Toibin

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find…

— Steven Pressfield

I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write…

— Etgar Keret

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

— Kim Edwards