I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm…

When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.

— Jim Rash

When I first started writing in the beginning, it was very much surrounding the idea of escape and of fantasy, then when I got…

— Arlo Parks

The idea of writing, to me, was, from the beginning, was writing something which was a little different from the ordinary exchange of speech.…

— W. S. Merwin

The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote were these…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“The three hardest parts of writing a novel are writing the beginning, the middle, and the end.”

— Beth Revis

There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning, a plot,…

— Svetlana Alexievich

When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to them quickly…

— E. L. Konigsburg

Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.

— St. Lucia

When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add to the…

— Alex Timbers

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen

— Frederick Franck

I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of…

— Vera Wang

Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.

— Ian Mckellen

With pencil there is a tendency to be timid, either using very faint lines or erasing bad lines... Line sketching tends to emphasize the…

— Paul Laseau

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

— Fernando Pessoa

I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.

— Ben Shahn