Writing Begins Quotes

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

— Jeanette Winterson

The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

— Roland Barthes

All writing begins in the sea of experience.

— Barry Lane

“Heavy as such things are After the wordslide, the writing begins." From "Word Quake”

— Eileen Granfors

The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

— Anonymous

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

— Anne Lamott

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else:…

— Kenneth Patchen

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

— Winston Churchill

I believe writing is where it all begins; you can not make a film look different, you have to write it differently.

— Rakshit Shetty

“This is important to writing. . . that is, it is important to my own writing. This. . . is landscape! Mine.…

— Patricia MacLachlan

I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And…

— Silas House

Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have…

— Paul Auster

Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices…

— Richard Rhodes

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve…

— Anne Lamott

In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their…

— Donald E. Westlake

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something-anything-down on paper. A friend…

— Anne Lamott