Beginning Quotes

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You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written that… — Neil Gaiman
Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years. — Alex Haley
Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end. — Philip Larkin
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try… — Ernest Hemingway
I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning....Then I go back… — Truman Capote
When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't get that sentence… — Toni Morrison
Whatever machine you use, however sophisticated your technology , it's ideas that count. In the beginning was the idea. No machine will give you the… — Unknown Author
Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about. — Kit Reed
Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it… — Larry Flynt
I faxed a transfer request to the club at the beginning of the week, but let me state that I don't want to leave Leicester. — Stan Collymore
What is age, anyway? I feel young because I'm beginning a new chapter in my life, which is so exciting! — Brooke Burke
We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of the day. We… — Joe McNally
It was difficult in the beginning, in the middle and at the end. — Steve McClaren
There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People are beginning to… — Olaus Murie
I don't know why but I love this kind of project, when it's a little difficult and when you have a history. The beginning of… — Unknown Author
At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be able to solve… — Robert Cialdini
Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be a man. But… — Colin Fletcher
To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name. — Burl Ives
Our children will be forced to learn that homosexuality is normal and natural and that perhaps they should try it, and that'll be very soon… — Michele Bachmann
First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right… — Anthony Kennedy

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