Books Quote by Anton Chekhov

When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never…

— Janet Fitch

I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

— Steve Earle

I have a problem with beginnings... and endings... and middles. But I don't know what else I would do. I find it very, very…

— Miriam Toews

I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have…

— Vikas Swarup

It's amazing how much the sense of telling a story with a beginning, middle, and end helps me to relax. I find that the…

— Mark Rylance

I never outline my novels before I write. I do have a vague sense of beginning, middle, and end at the outset of each…

— Emily Giffin

When I set out to write a screenplay, I have in my mind a beginning and an end but that end part continually changes…

— Christian Keiber

It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

— Aaron Stanford

When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It's the journey toward that point I must discover. The…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

Work extra hard on the beginning of your story, so it snares reader's instantly. And know how you're going to end your story before…

— Joan Lowery Nixon

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 write well-fleshed out characters, and inevitably, more ideas spring from my subconscious. They all have a little bit of me in them. It’s…

— Faye Kellerman