Start Writing Quotes

106 quotes by 103 authors

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing. — Brandon Sanderson
When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it,… — Julian Casablancas
When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually… — Juliana Hatfield
In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know. — David McCullough
I can't start writing until I have a closing line. — Joseph Heller
Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for… — Brent Runyon
I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level. — Josh Radnor
I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing. — Zack Snyder
Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus. — Erma Bombeck
Tulips come up in spring for no reason. Of course, you planted bulbs and now in April the earth warms up. But why? For no… — Natalie Goldberg
I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection. — Aaron Sorkin
To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for… — Ned Rorem
I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape. — Carol Ann Duffy
I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started… — Julianna Baggott
I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing. — Chris Cleave
I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership. — Joshua Ferris
I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't want to be… — Evan Glodell
I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when… — Monica Ali
Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation.… — Piers Anthony

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