Action Quote by Will Hobbs

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

— Roger Ebert

If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.

— Chloe Grace Moretz

For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.

— Damon Lindelof

Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.

— Daniel Handler

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

— Dan Chaon

Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to…

— Stanley Schmidt

A new writer starting out today, whether it's for TV or film, they have to remember that they're telling the story to themselves first…

— Tony Grisoni

So many stories are determined before they start.

— Lionel Shriver

After the first shock of recognition - a sudden sense of "this is what I'm going to write" - the novel starts to breed…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

— Elizabeth Berg

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards

I've realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure in the…

— Laurie Foos