Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.
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Related You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. ROALD DAHL For years I played the what-if game. Maybe you're acquainted with this pastime. The rules are simple... CRAIG GROESCHEL How have everything started??? Just two humans man and woman make so many people on the planet?... DEYTH BANGER The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars. SALLY GARDNER The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. JIM HARRISON The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself i... DAVID GUTERSON That taught us how to block a sword with two knives. But what if an ax man's coming at me?" Gi... JOHN FLANAGAN Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes. MARCEL DUCHAMP She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousan... G.F. SMITH Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it. DAN SAVAGE Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go &... JAMES ROLLINS Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of no... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question i... GAYLE FORMAN The best project is one that asks a novel question. WALTER GILBERT So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aestheti... MARK POSTER There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate ... CARL SAGAN How you ask a question influences the answer you get SOTONYE ANGA He left the unspoken question hanging in the air. How did one annoy a two- kilometre-long black rect... ARTHUR C. CLARKE What If dead is another riddle?? Another matrix? DEYTH BANGER We could have been the greatest love story ever told. If only you'd stayed in character. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. ARISTOTLE Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are... DEYTH BANGER ...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is impo... WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the ques... K. A. APPLEGATE When an opportunity is presented in front of someone the first question that comes to mind is “Wha... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Ques eso? Queso? NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN Traditional fiction has a little bit of spatial exploration but is basically a question of time - th... GEOFF RYMAN I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than ... ROBERT CHARLES WILSON You win a race, the next race it's a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That's wh... MICHAEL SCHUMACHER This is not a moral question. This is a prudential question of what works?what policies are going to... RICHARD LAND How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. but the question of what to do with Bennett now is a whole different issue. DONNA KELLY To be or not to be?' That is not the question. What is the question? The question is not one of bein... TRUMAN G. MADSEN Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD If you're one of the top one or two in the league, why should age be a question? It's different if h... JOHN AVERY What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? WOODY ALLEN But what if you're wrong? What if there's more? What if there's hope you never dreamed of ... NICHOLE NORDEMAN The question is: What happened? The answer is: Everything. DEVIN MARKS This world was meant to be shared by everyone. What I want to ask is, "What happened? ANTHONY T. HINCKS What if this weren't a hypothetical question? UNKNOWN The debate among economists centers on two key questions. Is there truly a lasting improvement in pr... BARRY BOSWORTH Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and... AUTHOR UNKNOWN You saw what happened. Next question, I've got to grow up and act like a Division I football player. DREW TATE Do not let the day end without you asking yourself one great question. So many things do question ou... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How do you love your children? By doing what's best for them. Then how would you love your... J. GRANT HOWARD If you are a researcher, you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the answe... EDWARD WITTEN Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real ques... BRYANT H. MCGILL The question of the fire, the motivation, the discipline, it's all there. What you can't account for... JEFFREY LURIE When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they... GARY F EVANS... Life is what you make of it. You have to decide what you want in life. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA "And suddenly they came out of the woodwork. I don't actually know what that expression means. Wh... JOHN MARSDEN a single question loomed large, dwarfing every fear of death or wounds: What will battle really be l... DAVID PARKS In the same conversation, she might ask a question about a family member, and in two minutes or less... FAIRY CAROLAND The question is not what you look at, but what you see. HENRY DAVID THOREAU Most companies have Web pages now, even if it's just a one-page [online] brochure. Now, the question... BEN ISAACSON Not in vain does it [the proletariat] go through the stern but steeling school of labour. It is not ... KARL MARX Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nat... HILAIRE BELLOC What we take, how and what we make, what we waste, is in fact a question of ethics. YVON CHOUINARD Its time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of whats in it for me, but w... JOHN KERRY I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTI... DEREK LANDY In 1870 [during the first Vatican Council], Catholics were struggling with the question of what it m... JAY P. DOLAN That's the good thing about it. Nothing counts except what's goin' on around you. H.L. DAVIS That is the very question that we are investigating. What happened? ALBERTO GONZALEZ I don't write romance novels, any more than Tom Clancy writes legal thrillers. Yes, I write about lo... NICHOLAS SPARKS Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when ... NICHOLAS SPARKS Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But consci... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But consci... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in Amer... GEORGE W. BUSH It's the political question of the year: what happened to Gifford? There are two major surprises in ... DOUGLAS MUZZIO 'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?' PAUL SINGER Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete di... WILLIAM JAMES I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to. It is a question of sometimes choosing what... ALAN LEWIS The question is, what took so long? RICHARD SHELBY No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus t... PAULO COELHO We had a lot of question marks. I had no idea what to expect. So, I'm pretty pleased with finishing ... BRAD BEVIS Well, that's not a loaded question, so I'll have no problem answering it. I've said that we feel eac... JERRY ANGELO If what you're asking is how I debated whether or not to love her the answer is I didn't. Not at all... SARAH DESSEN We all have baggage. The question is: What baggage can you deal with? JAIME PRESSLY My question was 'what if every house cut their bills in half? What kind of impact would that have on... JEFF BARRIE What kind of wood is gopher wood is the wrong question. The right question is what does it mean? MACKIE JENKINS Nobody ever asks for permission to ask you a question you want to hear. Nobody ever says, Can I ask ... KARA LEE CORTHRON When the lights go out, the parents cry and ask each other what did he do to her, but the girls are ... ELEANOR CATTON Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... GERMANY KENT If I had an unlimited budget, I would really be probing that question of life because we know what t... ELLEN STOFAN What do you love more than loveWhen you question what your desire is forWhen you don't just figureTh... DAR WILLIAMS He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool for... CHINESE PROVERB He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool for... CHINESE PROVERBS Every choice in life sets us on a different path and carries its own set of “what ifs” and conse... A.J. DARKHOLME It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext. LESLIE WHAT When you're young, the question is "What can you do for me?" and when you're old the question is "Wh... JIM GENOVESE The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he s... LIN YUTANG The big question is what will happen over the next few years, JONATHAN ANDERSON When you start to appreciate and be aware of what is intrinsically good, you start to be happy with ... MAICHEE SUMMER Coca-Cola is the only business in the world where no matter which country or town or village you are... MUHTAR KENT This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow? KURT VONNEGUT It is not what you say, it is the questions you ask that are important. The only stupid question is ... VIKRANT PARSAI
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