Writing Quote by John Gardner

“This whole book is composed of first pages.”

— Hélène Cixous

“I tell everyone who asks me about writing...almost everyone has an idea for a book, and some even have a great ending, but it's…

— Brooklyn Hudson

“The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short.”

— Sofija

“I have tried so to write the first chapter that those who can't bear such a story will see at once what they are…

— C.S. Lewis

“I knew I must write a novel. But it seemed an impossible thing to do when I had been trying with great difficulty to…

— Hemingway Ernest

“Who says only long tedious novels are good to read when all that can be summed up in one line”

— Priyansh Shah

“Writing a story, regardless of length, always begins with a single word.”

— Don Roff

“How many pages will it take to tell your story?”

— Ashly Lorenzana

“I can’t get past one or two pages at a time.’ ‘That’s how it’s supposed to be read. Sipped like a soothing cup of…

— Sadeqa Johnson

“That's one of the things stories and books can do, they can make more than one time possible at once.”

— Ali Smith

“What a scholar one might be if one knew well only some half a dozen books.”

— Gustave Flaubert