In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I just start writing, and in the process, one hopefully comes up with ideas and solutions and explores all the little nooks… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Early retirement, Dalton. Teach yourself to type with your toes and you can start writing your memoirs.” — Mark Allen Smith Copy Share Image
I can't sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it's miserable some days. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen. — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
That's how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
Work extra hard on the beginning of your story, so it snares reader's instantly. And know how you're going to end your… — Joan Lowery Nixon Copy Share Image
I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating… — Rob Chapman Copy Share Image
I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract.… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
“When you start writing, your incredulity at the childish, incompetent, graceless thing you've done is shattering. One of the advantages of having… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
You've got to be a good reader. So whatever genre that you're interested in, read a lot of books about it and… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
I pretty much started out writing full time. I was an at-home mom and when my youngest entered kindergarten, I started writing.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Usually when I finish the draft of a book, I'm sure I'll never write another one. I'm just that tired and sick… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you write something, you have that day when you start writing and you feel really good, and you start changing… — John Talabot Copy Share Image
Getting published was like God stamping you 'acceptable,' and all of a sudden you can start writing for other places. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
The moment you start thinking about what other people and other artists think, you're going to start writing like other people. — Rex Orange County Copy Share Image
I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level. — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that. — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
“I didn't start writing late. I started when the story was ready and so was I. Writing@55” — Trice McIntyre Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready. — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing. — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
If I could have any job in the world, I'd start out by writing a blog on Wired.com. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely. — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. — Richard Price Copy Share Image
I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
