1.   At first she thought about beginning the novel with an acknowledgment that it was about her mother, then decided to reserve that for an afterword.

2.   Before he can begin a novel, Irving says he must know where it will end.

3.   After her marriage, she began a novel about a girl working at a vanity press.

4.   Clark began the novel on a personal dare, challenging himself to write something that he did not think he could accomplish.

5.   He then began the novel, fully expecting it would be his next book.

6.   Mrs. Woolf, taken to the suburbs of London for her health by her devoted husband, is beginning a novel.

7.   Powell began publishing novels that satirized Ohio life and later the New York social scene.

8.   She has also found time to study Latin and Greek and to begin a novel.