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Quotes About Beginning

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~ Haruki Murakami
He had that feeling he remembered from childhood when he opened a new textbook at the beginning of the term, ignorant of its contents but sensing the new knowledge to come.
~ Haruki Murakami
I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.
~ Helen Fielding
I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.
~ John Irving
As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work.
~ Peter Straub
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
~ C. S. Forester
The first is that instead of writing a sequel, which is what most people do, this is in fact a prequel. Although we didn't know that when we began the process.
~ James Collins
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
~ A. B. Yehoshua
The writing process is the time where nothing's been set in stone. It's a blank slate, or a blank page.
~ Leigh Whannell
They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they've written or painted or composed before. I can't imagine approaching every single new project with-without doubt.
~ Stephen Sondheim
The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these words, I wouldn't have written anything else; it's just enough.
~ Elie Wiesel
The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.
~ Celine Dion
I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
~ C. S. Forester
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
~ Thomas Traherne
I started with Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee and Lou Gossett, Jr. and the rest of the wonderful cast of 'A Raisin In The Sun.' We were directed by the great Lloyd Richards. The play was written by the wonderful Lorraine Hansberry, and it was produced by Phil Rose. That's where my start was, so... not a bad way to start.
~ Glynn Turman
For the fiction students I teach, one of the most common mistakes is to start in the wrong place. Often the actual story doesn't begin until about a third of the way into their narratives. They start off instead with excessive scene-setting, metaphysical speculation, introducing nonessential dramatis personae, throat-clearing, etc.
~ Darin Strauss
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
~ Jackson Pollock
I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.
~ Sara Paretsky
The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.
~ Aaron Sorkin
I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
~ Abel Korzeniowski
I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.
~ Jilly Cooper
I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
~ Harrison Birtwistle
When I first started in WWE, that was my first time being on social media.
~ Eva Marie