Beginning Quote by Ben Mendelsohn

There are epic impulses everywhere you look in There Will Be Blood; what's missing is character development, focused storytelling and, most significantly (apart from…

— Stephanie Zacharek

Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.

— Patrick Rothfuss

'True Blood' differs from 'Six Feet Under' in that there are way more characters and plot-lines, but fundamentally it's still about the characters and…

— Alan Ball

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat

I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made a mistake…

— Ben Affleck

When we were done and not picked up to series yet, they wanted us to read lots of writers. I was like, "No." Then…

— Harry Elfont

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I…

— Cory Doctorow

Blood Riders is a novel like you've never read before - part Western and part horror and one-hundred percent sweet excitement. It's vivid and…

— T. Jefferson Parker

The nice thing about a series is you can end on cliffhangers all the time. You can be like, 'You know what? Here we…

— Richelle Mead

The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing…

— Ivy Compton-Burnett