Sentence examples for beginning a book from inspiring English sources

I also wanted to avoid the pronominal ugliness of beginning a book with "she" and switching to "he" halfway through, or worse, the dreaded "s/he".

When she started to write herself, Collins got into the habit of beginning a book and then abandoning it when a better idea came along.

But there is a terrible danger in beginning a book with sky-high expectations, and Stop The Clocks illustrates it perfectly.

I'm beginning a book leave, to work on a book with my wife, Sheryl WuDunn, about what we see as one of the great moral and practical challenges for this century — raising the status of women in the developing world.

"I've had a fantasy," he said, one that was fulfilled twice, when he was writing "Guerrillas" (1975) and "A Bend in the River" (1979), "a fantasy of beginning a book in the autumn and writing through the winter, day after day, day after day".

As always, before beginning a book she immersed herself in research, starting with St. Augustine: "Many of our ways of thinking about memory had their origins in the 'Confessions.' St. Augustine was the one who set up the idea that memory was this great storehouse, and that nothing was ever lost.

"A writer only begins a book," Samuel Johnson once said.

She begins a book, she says, with themes.

The American novelist Stephen Crane, according to an unreliable contemporary, began a book about a male prostitute.

Elmore Leonard once stipulated that you should never begin a book with weather, about which he was wrong.

"I don't ever begin a book with a grand intention," he said.