Begin Writing Quotes
18 quotes by 18 authors
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At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at…
— Elmore Leonard
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Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.
— Donald Hall
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I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time,…
— Trevor Rabin
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I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing…
— Mercedes Lackey
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Unless you loosen the hold that your past has on you, your future will unfold in much the same way . . . it is…
— David Simon
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When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the things…
— Lenny Kravitz
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I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.
— Jonathan Lethem
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It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.
— Nell Freudenberger
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Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a…
— Lianne La Havas
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Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all,…
— Annie Dillard
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I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically…
— Mark Twain
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Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music…
— Paul Auster
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There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that one of the…
— Julia Glass
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I try to begin writing as close to a dreamlike state as I can get.
— Philipp Meyer
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When we finish this tour we are going to begin writing and go into the studio to hopefully have a brand new Foreigner album out…
— Lou Gramm
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Do you have a plan for your life? If not, allocate some time today to sit quietly with pen and paper to begin writing your…
— Ritu
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The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seems as absurd to me…
— Mary Kay Blakely
Who Wrote These Begin Writing Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 18 Begin Writing Quotes as follows: