Atmosphere Quote by John Irving

I don't begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding…

— John Irving

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then…

— Anonymous

The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

— Anonymous

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is…

— Anthony Trollope

When I set out to write a screenplay, I have in my mind a beginning and an end but that end part continually changes…

— Christian Keiber

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that…

— Louis L'Amour

I always know the ending; that's where I start.

— Anonymous

Sometimes you don’t know what you're writing until you've finished it.

— Vu Tran

When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of…

— Alan Moore

I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my next novel…

— Jonathan Trigell

I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

In a given scene I may know nothing more than how it's supposed to end, most of the time not even that. Scenes are…

— Richard Price