Begins Quote by Dick Bruna

To start with, look at all the books.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I start each book when it's ready and never before.

— Alice Walker

I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have…

— Ian Mcewan

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

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my…

— Beverly Cleary

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

— Blaise Pascal

You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written…

— Neil Gaiman

A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.

— Caroline Gordon

I begin each book with a challenge to myself.

— Laura Lippman

The book is first and foremost something I made for myself.

— Tim Ferriss

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

— Blaise Pascal

Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line can come…

— Alice Sebold