Books Quote by Thomas Harris

“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after. ...You must…

— Thomas Harris

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

— Jasper Fforde

“When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it.”

— Thomas Harris

“...novels do not begin the way you want them to, but the way they want to.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Well, he began, since we're talking about books, there is a book in my story.”

— Alexis M. Smith

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

— Blaise Pascal

“The fact is that each writer creates his own precursors.”

— jorge luis borges

“Writing a novel creates a window to a new way of looking at the world. Reading one means looking through that window.”

— Mark Rubinstein

“Writing novels allows you to create your own world.”

— Norman Shabel

“Just like so many things in life, the secret to writing a book is just sticking with it. Put in the time and eventually…

— Jeffrey Littorno

“Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.”

— T.L. Rese

“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.”

— George Saunders