Beginning Quote by Peter De Vries

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

— James Clavell

“I wanted every novel I have ever read to end with a true beginning.”

— Adalet Ağaoğlu

Everything begins and ends with the writing.

— Christina Pickles

That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“The three hardest parts of writing a novel are writing the beginning, the middle, and the end.”

— Beth Revis

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

— C. S. Forester

“Every good story needs a good ending. Don't write the beginning of a novel without knowing the end of it.”

— A.D.Y. Howle

“A good plot should have a strong middle and a spectacular end. But under no circumstances should it have a beginning.”

— A.M. Dean

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Every concept should have a beginning, middle and end.

— Ali Shirazinia

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The beginning of a novel: start a subject, no matter where, and to have the desire to finish, start with very beautiful phrases.”

— Charles Baudelaire