Start Writing Quotes
106 Start Writing quotes by 103 unique authors
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on
— Louis L'Amour
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There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note…
— Patrick Carman
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare…
— Erica Jong
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It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role…
— David Levithan
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When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.
— William Gibson
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After preliminary research, I zero in on an idea, and then I spend at least four months exploring the topic and in plot-building. I jot…
— Ashwin Sanghi
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Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them.
— Peter Morgan
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I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets…
— James Mercer
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After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the…
— Hari Kondabolu
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I like to have a title before I start writing.
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie.
— Spike Jonze
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Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like…
— Kenneth Koch
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So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.
— Richard Foreman
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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
— Stephen Sondheim
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It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was…
— Joan Didion
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Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.
— R L Stine
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All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle of writing I…
— Linda Sue Park
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It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
— Jasper Fforde
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I'm tired of writing exams for marks. I want to start writing books for sell.
— Terry Mark
Who Wrote These Start Writing Quotes
103 authors contributed a total of 106 Start Writing Quotes, led by these top contributors: