Beginning Quote by Diana Gabaldon

I think at a certain point the book develops a certain weight, or pressure. You've been pushing the rock up the hill for a…

— Dan Chaon

With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over…

— Dani Shapiro

Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful…

— Lily King

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

You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.

— Salman Rushdie

“Writing a novel is like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces aren't even fixed in shape. Yet, somehow, they all come together…

— Jyoti Arora

The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them ahead of…

— Elizabeth Berg

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be…

— Don DeLillo

Books are finished.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

— Markus Zusak

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things [...] The highest mountain…

— Roald Dahl