Firsts Quote by Beatrix Potter

“There's something delicious about writing those first few words of a story. You can never quite tell where they will take you. Mine took…

— Beatrix Potter

When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are.

— Luis Negron

It seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful.

— Tobias Lindholm

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

— Barbara Mertz

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

— Flannery O'Connor

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You must have…

— Marion Dane Bauer

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

— James Gandolfini

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story.…

— Martin McDonagh

Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just…

— Jan Brett

The first job of a writer is to be honest.

— Irvine Welsh

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

— Neil Diamond