Quotes About Beginning

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

In the beginning , Renato had said, all of the world was America .

his father had taught him when he was still a boy that men should always show respect for women because women carried inside them the place where life began.

Sex was the first dove.

It is all one to me where I begin; for I shall come back again there.

Starting is good. You can't get anywhere at all if you never start.

January. It was all things. And it was one thing, like a solid door. Its cold sealed the city in a gray capsule. January was moments, and January was a year. January rained the moments down, and froze them in her memory: [...]Every human action seemed to yield a magic. January was a two-faced month, jangling like jester's bells, crackling like snow crust, pure as any beginning, grim as an old man, mysteriously familiar yet unknown, like a word one can almost but not quite define.

You came during an early snowstorm

This is important to writing. . . that is, it is important to my own writing. This. . . is landscape! Mine. This dirt came from the prairie where I was a child. I played in it, dug in it, planted in it, and walked over it. It is where I began. And all my writing begins with a landscape such as this. A place.

I'd go to school and walk up to people. "A new leaf," I said.

I believe it is the inability of beginning writers to achieve at least a certain degree of detachment from their writing that defeats so many of them before they even get started. Without this distancing, any criticism of your writing will seem devastating, even incapacitating, whereas with the proper amount of detachment it will seem merely cruel and unusual punishment.

The 1:1:1 method can be summed up as starting a story as close to the end as possible. Most stories end before they get to the end, in terms of impact on the listener, their attention span, and the energy that you have to tell it.

More often than not, what you are searching for will only be gained through beginning.

All stories begin before they start and never, ever finish.

Everything's always ending. But everything's always beginning, too.

sooner begun is sooner done

I would pass over the whole of that evening, in fact. I would spare you the burden of any of it if one piece were not necessary to the story. It is vital. It is the hinge upon which the story pivots like an opening door. In some ways, this is where the story begins. So let's have done with it.

I don't doubt the process started sensibly.

Sabemos cómo termina antes de que empiece. Por eso nos gustan las historias. Nos ofrecen la claridad y la sencillez de que carece nuestra vida real

Begin at the beginning.' Very well, if we are to have a telling, let's make it a proper one.

the innocent silence that had gathered like a clear pool around the three men was beginning to darken into a silence of a different kind.

I was superstitious. Today was a Monday. I was born on Monday. It was a good day to arrive in New York City. No one expected me. Everything awaited me.

In the beginning was real time. A woman enters a garden that is bursting with color. She has no memory, only a burgeoning curiosity. She approaches the man. He is not curious. He stands before a tree.