Books Quote by C. S. Forester

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

— Claire Tomalin

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

Of writing many books there is no end.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change…

— Sarah Addison Allen

Writing is not what you start. It's not even what you finish. It's what you start, finish, and put out there for the world…

— Nell Scovell

That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

— Philip Gerard

Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

— Peter De Vries

Everything begins and ends with the writing.

— Christina Pickles

Just because you started off one way don't mean the ending of the book has to be the way you started.

— Bernard Hopkins

Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe…

— Harlan Coben