Before I Began Quotes
- I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. — Anne Rice
- I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write. — Patricia Reilly Giff
- I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM… — Zadie Smith
- A heartless hand on my shoulder A push and it's over Alabaster crashes down Six months is a long time Tried living in the real… — Steven Morrissey
- I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be. — Amy Hempel
- The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA. — Andrea M. Ghez