Books Quote by Philip Larkin

Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

— Peter De Vries

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Adalet Ağaoğlu

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through…

— Anna Quindlen

“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

Everything begins and ends with the writing.

— Christina Pickles

“Just as all writers were beginners once, so were all novels. They all went through rough stages, even the ones by our most hallowed…

— Roz Morris

Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the…

— Italo Calvino

Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.

— Rita Mae Brown

“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

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.

— Patrick Rothfuss