Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing. (Iris Murdoch)

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.

Iris Murdoch

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