Start Writing Quotes

106 quotes by 103 authors

• When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done. — Gwendolyn Brooks
• I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my… — J. A. Jance
• You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path - and the reason they… — Neale Donald Walsch
• I'm too impatient to wait for things to happen to me. If I should be out of work for two months I would go crazy.… — Erland Josephson
• I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl. — Ester Dean
• When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves. — Alice Hoffman
• I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up… — Karen Thompson Walker
• I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely. — Josh Lieb
• I never want to write something until I know every scene in the movie. I don't want someone hiring me and then me not being… — Stephen Sommers
• Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style. — Billy Bob Thornton
• You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young. — Ellie Goulding
• I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth… — Junot Diaz
• I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing. — Elmore Leonard
• You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now. — Matthew McConaughey
• When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out. — Alanis Morissette
• Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. — Jack Nicholson
• When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever… — Salman Rushdie
• I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy… — Richard Russo
• I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and… — Wole Soyinka
• The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again. — Ben Stiller

Who Wrote These Start Writing Quotes

103 authors contributed a total of 106 Start Writing Quotes, led by these top contributors:

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