Book Quote by Rose Tremain

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.

— Claire Tomalin

Probably a good idea, let me know how it ends" "I already know how it ends" "You read the ending first?" "I always read…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

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 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

I usually have a general idea of where the story is going, but I try to avoid planning in too much detail. The best…

— Karl Iagnemma

I work very deliberately, with a plan. But sometimes I come to a point that I planned as the end and it needs softening.…

— Colm Toibin

If you gone start something finish it, never close a book without finishing its chapter.

— Alyssa Tillmon

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going…

— Stephen King

Just because you started off one way don't mean the ending of the book has to be the way you started.

— Bernard Hopkins