Beginnings and endings Quote by Stephanie Butland

“It doesn't matter how a novel was printed. What matters are the words in between the pages.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

“A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don't know how it's going to end. Otherwise, there'd be no…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy, and seven…

— Alex de Campi

“This whole book is composed of first pages.”

— Hélène Cixous

“The only bad book was a book that didn't have any pages in it.”

— Chelsea M. Cameron

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

— Toni Sorenson

“I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.”

— Nora Ephron

“A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth reading to…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.”

— Blaise Pascal

“How much this book of life changes, he thought. And we are not the ones to write the pages.”

— Naomi Benaron

“Your days are like pages, the chapters unread. You have to keep turning your book has no end.”

— John Steinbeck

“If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.”

— Elaine Liner