How do they start their novel? Do they need to think about the opening lines and closing lines?Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk agonizes over the first line – rewriting it 50 or 100 times.John Irving begins his novels by writing the last sentence first.Do they plan out their novels or do they just write and stuff happens* Plot and story structure is all very planned for Pamuk* Ondaatje says he does not even know what the next sentence will be.* Margaret Atwood starts with a rough plot which is usually wrong.* Colum McCann prints out a chapter or two in large fonts and then take the stapled pages to a park to read. He uses eight-point Times New Roman, while he edits dialog because that forces him to squint at the tiny type and read the lines carefully* Anne Rice will spend a year or two researching a book before writing the first draft. She edits continuously as she writes.