I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind. — Patrick Dennis Copy Share Image
I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco. — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing. — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership. — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published… You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
A lot of times, I know there's something bothering me but I don't know what it is. Then I start writing and… — Jon Rahm Copy Share Image
Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“If you want to write, start writing now in your own home town and write every day as hard as you can;… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from,… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job?… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“You better [start writing] now because you know how to write, and you have fingers, and you have this one life, and… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
How do I start writing a book? I sit there, I come up with an opening line, and then I go little… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Unpraised, I find it hard to start writing in the morning; but the dejection lasts only 30 minutes, and once I start… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing. — Jane Green Copy Share Image
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