Always Quote by Veronica Roth

But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that…

— Lauren Willig

When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something…

— Jim Butcher

The great thing about a trilogy is that it feels like you've got a beginning, a middle, and an end.

— Emma Thomas

I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it…

— John Barth

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as…

— Lynn Abbey

I think I have a sense right in the beginning of how big an idea it is and how much room it needs, and,…

— Lydia Davis

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.

— Jonathan Demme

If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely…

— Erin Morgenstern

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

— Alastair Reynolds

Each book first begins with a little idea.

— Dick Bruna

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

— Jo Nesbo

During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate…

— J. K. Rowling