Belief Quote by Mary Kay Zuravleff

It is important for me to discover the ideal title, for without this title the story or novel isn't quite in focus.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. A woman deciding which man she'll…

— Jillian Medoff

“While the subject matter is lynching, on a deeper level, this novel is about identity. Whom and what we identify ourselves with determines our…

— Julius Lester

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.

— Frank McCourt

The title is the first thing that I have. Then when I have that title, I have to make sure that the title...is like,…

— Melanie Martinez

I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.

— Mary Wesley

“The cover, title, the name of the author, how the work starts, the name of characters all this is important information which should be…

— Deyth Banger

At one point it occurred to me that the title could make a more significant contribution to the storytelling process. It could act as…

— Saul Bass

Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.

— Bob Goff

When you write a novel, there’s a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you’re less self-conscious about…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to…

— Jhumpa Lahiri