"I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he has to tell a story, but because he has a story to tell. The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause."
Anthony Trollope was an English novelist of the Victorian era known for the Barsetshire and Palliser series. He was one of the most prolific and influential novelists of his period.