I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel....

“ I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross; that its to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish. [VW] ”

Vita Sackville-West

From : The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf