Beginning Writing Quotes
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Beginning Writing Quotes & Sayings
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Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies genius and magic.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.
— Richard Peck
People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.
— Ellen Goodman
It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done.
— Elinor Fuchs
This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.
— Christopher Owens
Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.
— Mavis Gallant
[To an author who asked his opinion of his writing]
I have found only three things wrong with your work, the beginning, the middle, and the end. — George Bernard Shaw
I have found only three things wrong with your work, the beginning, the middle, and the end. — George Bernard Shaw
I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.
— Tony Gilroy
Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.
The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning. — Peter James West
The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning. — Peter James West
The beginning of every writing session is like setting down a road unknown.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget.
— Lauren Hammond
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
— C.S. Forester
Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.
— Phyllis A. Whitney
A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning.
— John Irving
I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Every good story needs a good ending. Don't write the beginning of a novel without knowing the end of it.
— A.D.Y. Howle
Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.
— Alex Haley
A piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning.
— Brian Morton
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
— Bernard Cornwell
It ends when you're ready for a new beginning.
— A.D. Posey
Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.
— Haruki Murakami
I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.
— Nicholas Sparks
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
— Graham Greene
Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.
— St. Lucia
First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.
— Fitzhugh Dodson
I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs.
— Fred Brooks
I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware.
— Yukimi Nagano
Take a writer away from his typewriter
and all you have left
is
the sickness
which started him
typing
in the
beginning — Charles Bukowski
and all you have left
is
the sickness
which started him
typing
in the
beginning — Charles Bukowski
Beginning hook readers. Endings create fans.
— Martha Alderson
Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.
— Rich Cohen
Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.
— Philip Larkin
I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.
— Dashiell Hammett
Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.
— Brad Meltzer
The Christmas story is penmanship of the most brilliant sort, where God crafted a beginning that would never be subject to an ending.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.
— Amy Lee
From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.
— Joan Larkin
I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.
— Christy Hall
I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.
— Rose Tremain
Foolish acts and bold adventures almost always appear, especially in the beginning, to be the absolute same thing.
— Leigh Ann Henion
I'm never sure if I'll ever write another song, what the song will be about and if what initially sparked the beginning of a song might complete it.
— Tracy Chapman
All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.
— Jeet Thayil
I already knew the next story that I was going to rewrite from the beginning. Mine.
— Indu Muralidharan
Still the fact remains, he had me hooked. As he had, of course, from the beginning. I had been writing my book about Johnno from the moment we met.
— David Malouf
What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.
— Nicole Krauss
Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.
— Stanley Schmidt
Bring all your intelligence to bear on your beginning.
— Elizabeth Bowen