Writing Begins Quotes

10 quotes by 9 authors

• In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but by… — Donald E. Westlake
• Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just… — Kenneth Patchen
• All writing begins in the sea of experience. — Barry Lane
• The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say. — Mark Twain
• Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening. — Jeanette Winterson
• Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. — Anne Lamott
• Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do… — Anne Lamott
• I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single… — Silas House
• 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
• Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in… — Richard Rhodes

Who Wrote These Writing Begins Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 10 Writing Begins Quotes as follows:

• 2 Writing Begins Quotes by Anne Lamott
• 1 Writing Begins Quote by Donald E. Westlake
• 1 Writing Begins Quote by Kenneth Patchen
• 1 Writing Begins Quote by Barry Lane
• 1 Writing Begins Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Writing Begins Quote by Jeanette Winterson
• 1 Writing Begins Quote by Silas House
• 1 Writing Begins Quote by Paul Auster
• 1 Writing Begins Quote by Richard Rhodes