Begin Quote by John Irving

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

— Thomas Harris

The DNA of the novel - which, if I begin to write nonfiction, I will write about this - is that: the title of…

— Mary Kay Zuravleff

With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You…

— Jane Smiley

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

— C. S. Forester

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

— Thomas Harris

If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.

— Sylvia Plath

“When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become a person? ”

— David Lodge

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words…

— Anonymous

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Prizes do not mean anything to me. I think it is more important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird…

— Hayao Miyazaki

My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from the Sunday…

— Michael Smith

My advice is not to aim for prizes and awards. We are in this for the joy of research, the fascination, the love of…

— Jim Peebles