Book Quote by Jonathan Trigell

I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin…

— Elmore Leonard

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

I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning....Then I go…

— Truman Capote

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already…

— Anita Desai

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

But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end.…

— Anthony Doerr

When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times, I know…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

— Elizabeth Berg

When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.

— Neel Mukherjee

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

Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take…

— Cecelia Ahern

When I write, I never know the endings. What I think works in [my] stories is the fact that when I write, I really…

— Etgar Keret