Journey Quote by Nadine Bjursten

“Beginning a new book is always a test of my expectations. The turn of a single page can lift me up or ruin me…

— Kim Hotzon

Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of…

— Carl Hiaasen

“Every writer in this book has a slightly different process, but they all start with the same thing: a blank page.”

— Timothy Ferriss

“This whole book is composed of first pages.”

— Hélène Cixous

“The next best thing after finishing writing a chapter is starting a new one.”

— Chris Almeida

“If this were a novel, you'd have to start a new chapter as soon as I appeared.”

— Jasper Fforde

“The brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“That last page turned is a perfect excuse to write a whole new book.”

— Toni Sorenson

“There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, becasuse you realize there is so much…

— Anonymous

“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

“For under scrutiny you will find that even an open book can have a surprise scribbled in its margins.”

— Violet Haberdasher

Whatever's good about your book should be good on page 1, or very few editors are going to get to page 2.

— Chris Pavone