At some point we must stop editing everyone else' story…

You must stop editing--or you'll never finish anything. Begin with a time-management decision that indicates when the editing is to be finished: the deadline…

— Kenneth Atchity

Work extra hard on the beginning of your story, so it snares reader's instantly. And know how you're going to end your story before…

— Joan Lowery Nixon

“Too often we sit back and speak platitudes of the nitty-gritty bits of writing; the editing, the story structure, the verbal sparring vs. banter,…

— Rachel Heffington

Stop editing your pictures so much. What if you go missing?

— Celeste Hartman

“The story starts in summer, of course. When else would a Michigan story start?”

— Nora Carroll

“Every story is the start of something big...”

— Ernest Grant

As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told…

— Joss Whedon

There’s no story that’s the start of itself.

— Jeanette Winterson

If you're gonna start a story, you start from the beginning, right?

— Luke Evans

“My first draft is the skeleton of the story. I have to go back over it from start to finish repeatedly, adding all the…

— Alisha Ashton

“If you don't like your Life, Your Story, Then Start a New Chapter... Write a Different ending for your Life, Starting Right Now!”

— Jeremy Marcus Coates

The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun…

— Chuck Palahniuk

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.

— Tony Robbins

“ You started the story. Once you start a story, you have to make an end for it. That’s the rule. ”

— Dean Koontz