Bores Quote by Gail Carson Levine

As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing else will…

— Ronee Blakley

There are never beginnings and endings in my work; everything just fits into place after a while.

— Bruce Gilden

All beginnings are very troublesome things.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing…

— Susan Sontag

I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place.

— Jami Attenberg

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

— Anne Lamott

Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad.

— Anonymous

I have a problem with beginnings... and endings... and middles. But I don't know what else I would do. I find it very, very…

— Miriam Toews

The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.

— Stewart O'Nan

I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.

— Sefi Atta

I very rarely write anything before what I see what I'm writing for.

— Henry Mancini