Effort Quote by Anne Lamott

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

— Anne Lamott

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 learned to…

— Anne Lamott

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

— Silas House

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

— Donald E. Westlake

The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

— Roland Barthes

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Richard Rhodes

All writing begins in the sea of experience.

— Barry Lane

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

— Anonymous

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

— Rakshit Shetty

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

— Kenneth Patchen

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

— Jeanette Winterson