Book Quote by Italo Calvino

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

“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.”

— Thomas Harris

Everything begins and ends with the writing.

— Christina Pickles

I try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to…

— Scott Spencer

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

— Wislawa Szymborska

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

— Peter De Vries

“The beginning of a novel: start a subject, no matter where, and to have the desire to finish, start with very beautiful phrases.”

— Charles Baudelaire

“Before the beginning ends, start a new chapter.”

— Bhavik Sarkhedi

It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of…

— Hannah Arendt

In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.

— Will Hobbs

People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for it.

— Alicia Vikander

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

— Thomas B. Macaulay